Matt Blostein

Matt Blostein, Vinnie Sperrazza and Their Second, "Paraphrase"

Source: Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
March 15, 2011

Music changes over time. What was mainstream in jazz circa 1965 is more retro now, 46 years later. So Al Cohn and Zoot Sims are long gone, their music still great, but people coming up with that take on the jazz sound are really not mainstream anymore; they are revivalists. So what then IS mainstream? Perhaps some of the things Dave Holland has been doing form one part of it. There's a looseness that isn't quite “free" in the definition ...
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