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Positions & Descriptions (Clean Feed) by Phil Freeman Buy it from Amazon The free jazz orchestra has a long and raucous history. (I analyzed some notable recordings for Perfect Sound Forever in...
View ArticleAnton Webern 1883-1945
Anton Webern was born December 3, 1883. Had he lived, today would have been his 129th birthday. (That’s a joke, obviously, but Webern did in fact die before his time—he was shot by an American soldier...
View ArticleCecil Taylor Wins 2013 Kyoto Prize
The Kyoto Prize, a sort of Japanese equivalent to the Nobel Prize, has been awarded every year since 1985 in three categories: Advanced Technology, Basic Science, and Arts and Philosophy. The Inamori...
View ArticleAdventures In Sound
Adventures in Sound is a new three-CD box from the Cherry Red label, gathering three relatively recent compilations—2009’s Adventures in Sound, 2010’s New Directions in Music, and 2013’s Electronic...
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Miles Davis was born May 26, 1926. In observance of the anniversary of his birth, I’m taking a look at an album that I haven’t listened to in about 15 years. In December 1984, Davis was given the...
View ArticlePierre Boulez
There have been many times in my 50 years on this planet when I have felt like a slack-jawed rube, but the feeling doesn’t usually last long enough to leave a mark. I know enough things that the...
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