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Avant-jazz - Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz) is a style of music and improvisation that combines elements of avant-garde art music and composition with elements of traditional jazz. Avant-jazz often sounds very similar to free jazz, but differs in that, contrary to the impression it may give that results from a...

Happy Birthday Charles Gayle -

Free jazz tenor saxophone great CHARLES GAYLE did not make his first recordings until 1988, and therefore hasn’t been in the public eye for all that long compared to other jazzmen. Thus, it’s a mild shock to be reminded that he’s celebrating his 70th birthday today, February 28. But starting...

Music Music DVD Review: Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Live In '63 & '67 -

Why is it that in every musical genre there have to be people who appoint themselves as the protectors of its integrity. I hate to admit that the majority of the time these people are critics who seem to feel they know what the music is better than the people...

Act Like You Know: Ornette Coleman -

When Ornette Coleman won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007, Stephen Colbert did a routine which summed up why you should like Ornette Coleman. Colbert cued up a particularly raucous clip from Sound Grammar, Coleman’s latest album, and started dancing uncontrollably to it. When it finished, he went for his first...

A Link to Eric Dolphy - When it comes to jazz you run across certain names and they are usually whispered by fans with a kind of awe. For me, as you may already know, that name is Miles Davis. For my brother, it is Charlie 'Bird' Parker. For some it is John Coltrane. One of...

Party Intellectuals - I consider Marc Ribot to be the ultimate guitar renaissance man. Just consider a small portion of his resume: Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, The Lounge Lizards, John Zorn, T Bone Burnett, Patti Scialfa, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Rob Wasserman, Ellery Eskelin, Marianne Faithfull, Mike Patton, Cibo Matto, Dave Douglas, Robert...

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