Jazz Articles about John Blum

John Blum: Naked Mirror

by Mark F. Turner
May 5, 2002

New York pianist/composer John Blum has been on the music seen for over ten years. His list of credentials is quite extensive having worked with such notables such as William Parker, Cecil Taylor, and Jackson Krall. He is well known within the circles of “free jazz" artists.

The term for the idiom free jazz should require some definition. In a loose quote from (Avant-Garde Jazz Musicians): “Free" or “free-form jazz", for instance, suggests that few guidelines are established in the ...