Jazz Articles about Jeff Lederer's Brooklyn Blowhards

Jeff Lederer's Brooklyn Blowhards: Brooklyn Blowhards

by Mark Corroto
March 31, 2016

Imagine seeing a despondent Albert Ayler walking around Brooklyn on a cold November day in 1970, with his tenor saxophone under his arm. Some say he threw himself into the East River, a suicide by drowning. His loss, our loss, was one a true original voices in jazz. Now picture Ayler with a copy of Moby-Dick; or, The Whale tucked under his arm. Reading the 800-plus pages of Herman Melville's opus has been attempted by many, but completed ...