New Forms: Jazz Ensemble in New York

About New Forms

New Forms is a jazz group that appears in New York City lineups at Gold Sounds, often in multi-band bills that place them alongside acts like Silk, Votive, Burial Dance, and Alyosha. The name also echoes a long-running thread in UK electronic music history, where “New Forms” is known as a landmark 1997 drum-and-bass album title, though this project works in a different idiom. Onstage, New Forms favors tight ensemble interplay and clear structure over spectacle. Their sets tend to move in compact scenes, with rhythm leading the transitions.