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Thinking about Cecil Taylor

• April 24, 2016 • 3 Comments

Posted in Memories of shows, musical content, Personal notes, Reflections on musical context
Tags: ceciil taylor, improvisation, jazz, piano, unit structures

Story of a recording: “Infinite Spirit: Revisiting Music of the Mwandishi Band”

• December 5, 2015 • 2 Comments

Posted in musical content

What Ornette Coleman teaches us about civic engagement

• September 25, 2015 • Leave a Comment

Posted in musical content, Reflections on musical context, the book's life in the world
Tags: circle, civic obligation, civil society, collective improvisation, democracy, jazz music, mwandishi, ornette coleman, responsibility, revolutionary ensemble

The Rite of Bitches Brew: Miles Davis’s BB in light of Igor Stravinsky’s Le Sacre

• September 3, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Posted in musical content, Reflections on musical context

Reconsidering Miles Davis Live at the Fillmore East (1970) in light of Miles at the Fillmore (2014)

• May 13, 2014 • 2 Comments

Posted in musical content
Tags: airto moreira, bob gluck, chick corea, dave holland, electric jazz, fillmore east, jack dejohnette, jazz, jazz fusion, keith jarrett, miles davis, steve grossman

Listening to Miles Davis’s “Lost Quintet”

• July 30, 2013 • 5 Comments

Posted in Crafting the text, musical content
Tags: 1969, 1970, bitches brew, bob gluck, chick corea, dave holland, fusion, gary bartz, jack dejohnette, jazz, jazz history, jazz rock, miles davis, tony williams, wayne shorter