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Cecil Taylor Unit
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The Incentive of the Maggot
Half sublime, half half-baked: I've been reading through Ron Slate's first collection, "The Incentive of the Maggot", and what's striking besides the overwrought awfulness of the title, is that Slate hits the ball about half the time. Pinsky [... more]
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American Singers: Twenty-seven Portraits in Song
When Whitney Balliett's American Musicians appeared in the Fall of 1986, the acclaim it received was universal. Leonard Feather, writing in the Los Angeles Times, said no other writer now living can write with comparable grace and equal enthusiasm about [... more]
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Bill Dixon With Exploding Star Orchestra
Rob Mazurek (cornet) is a prime figure in the vibrant Chicago sound scene, having performed in Chicago Underground, Isotope 217, and Mandarin Movie. Exploding Star Orchestra is his latest project. This is the group's second album and the first to feature [... more]
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The Late Great Allen Ginsberg: A Photo Biography
Many of the seminal figures of contemporary culture knew and worked with Allen Ginsberg and have a place in this book. Among them are Cecil Taylor, David Amram, Philip Glass, Ray Manzarek, Ed Sanders, Czeslaw Milosz, Norman Mailer, Robert Frank, Gary [... more]
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Musings; The Musical Worlds of Gunther Schuller - A ...
Musings gathers together the essays, speeches, liner notes, dictionary entries, and magazine articles of one of the most important musical figures of the century. The writings in this collection cover such artists as Paul Whiteman, Duke Ellington, Cecil [... more]
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Avant-Garde Jazz Musicians: Performing Out There
Focuses on performers whose own styles, by definition, transcend traditional boundaries of jazz and most Western forms of music. The performers discussed include John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Daniel Carter, Billy Bang, and Jemeel Moondoc. [... more]
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Free Jazz
In Free Jazz, Jost paints a group of ten 'style portraits'--musical images of the styles and techniques of John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, the Chicago-based AACM (which included [... more]
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Northern Sun, Southern Moon: Europe's Reinvention of Jazz
Until the 1960s American jazz, for all its improvisational and rhythmic brilliance, remained rooted in formal Western conventions originating in ancient Greece and early Christian plainchant. At the same time European jazz continued to follow the [... more]
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Miles, Ornette, Cecil: How Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, ...
The groundbreaking music of Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, and Cecil Taylor -- three African-Americans known to a broad-based audience by their first names alone -- have impacted successive waves of musicians, not only in jazz but across the musical [... more]
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The Incentive of the Maggot
Half sublime, half half-baked: I've been reading through Ron Slate's first collection, "The Incentive of the Maggot", and what's striking besides the overwrought awfulness of the title, is that Slate hits the ball about half the time. Pinsky [... more]
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Musings
This collection of writings by Gunther Schuller--the first composer to be awarded the Elise L. Stoeger Composer's Chair of the Chamber Society of Lincoln Center--provides a marvelous introduction to the man and his extraordinary range of musical [... more]
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