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Issue 10 of Point of Departure launches March 1st
Issue 10 features excerpts from recent books on jazz and improvised music: Mike Heffley's Northern Sun/Southern Moon: Europe's Reinvention of Jazz (Yale University Press; New Haven and London); David Lee's The Battle of the Five Spot: Ornette Coleman and the New York Jazz Field (The Mercury Press; Toronto); and an interview with pianist Marilyn Crispell included in Lloyd Peterson's Music and the Creative Spirit: Innovators in Jazz, Improvisation and the Avant Garde (The Scarecrow Press; Lanham, MD; Toronto; Oxford).
Issue 10 also marks the debut of A European Proposal, a new column by the renowned Italian jazz critic, historian and presenter, Francesco Martinelli. In his inaugural column, Martinelli celebrates the Art Ensemble of Chicago's 40th anniversary. Art Lange examines the genealogy of a riff in his A Fickle Sonance column while Brian Morton confronts the Great Wall of China-like legacy of John Coltrane in his Far Cry column.
An international panel of improvisers take part in this issue's What's New? Roundtable. Danish saxophonist Lotte Anker, Brooklyn- based multi-instrumentalist Ned Rothenberg and UK-based pianist and electronicist Pat Thomas discuss the real-time art of improvised music.
A dozen recommended CDs are reviewed in Moment's Notice including Ethnic Heritage Ensemble's Hot 'N' Heavy (Delmark), William Parker's For Percy Heath (Victo), and Enrico Rava's The Words and the Days (ECM).
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