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Brian Glick: Trophy

by AAJ Staff
February 1, 2001

At some point in the '60s, collective improvisation became intimately associated with “energy music," through the work of Albert Ayler and others. Sheer unrelenting intensity defined this sound. (Peter Brotzmann, Charles Gayle, and other improvisers offer ample proof that these two categories can fit together very nicely. However, British improvisers like Derek Bailey and the SME have also been busy since the late '60s recording evidence that alternative approaches can work just as well.)

Perhaps it's the “composed" nature of ...