Articles by Tom Spargo
Sound Experiments: The Music of the AACM by Paul Steinbeck
by Tom Spargo
Sound Experiments: The Music of the AACM Paul Steinbeck 272 Pages ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82953-1University of Chicago PressHardback 2022/ Paperback 2023 Paul Steinbeck's Sound Experiments is a historical narrative and technical analysis of the music of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Steinbeck traces the chronology of this wildly creative organization from its origins in the mid-1960s to the present day through the course ten chapters, each dedicated to a particularly influential album, composition, or live ...
read moreEmma Rawicz: Chroma
by Tom Spargo
There are only so many times that one can use phrases such as emerging talent" or upcoming star" before one must concede that the artist in question has in fact made it into the major league of jazz. With the August 2023 release of her second full-length album Chroma on the label ACT, this is precisely the point that tenor saxophonist Emma Rawicz has reached in her career. Building upon her successes from 2022, which involved featuring as a finalist ...
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