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Is Free Jazz really still free?

by John Bohannon

[4.Jun.08] :. This clip taken from a 1981 documentary titled Imagine the Sound is a rare document of one of the avant-garde world’s greatest piano players, Cecil Taylor. Most footage that has been...

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The Sounds of Now, Part Three: Anthony Braxton and the Ethics of Improvisation

by Chadwick Jenkins

[23.Jan.07] :. Jenkins's latest installment in a series of contemporary composer profiles discusses Anthony Braxton, who seems to have looked to music as a means not to erase or ignore cultural dissonance but rather to confront it directly.

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