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Tim Berne: Insomnia

by Charles Walker
February 7, 2011

Tim BerneInsomniaClean Feed2011 In the medical world, a blood count is a clinical tool, a method of aggregating data in order to make a diagnosis. In short, it's a way of picturing the lay of the land and from there determining the best path forward. Alto saxophonist Tim ...

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Michel Portal: Bailador

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by Charles Walker
February 2, 2011

For all the lip service paid to the idea of jazz as a universal language, the modern performing landscape is still, by and large, segregated into separate continental categories, each with a host of attendant stereotypes. For every Randy Weston or David Murray, musicians who have made studious efforts at cross-border communication, there are dozens of ...

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Roscoe Mitchell and The Note Factory: Far Side

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by Charles Walker
January 25, 2011

In his recent book about the AACM, A Power Stronger Than Itself (University of Chicago, 2007), trombonist/composer/critic George Lewis makes a serious, thoroughly researched argument for its members creating their own lineage of American “experimental music," influenced as much by pan-African musics or juke joint jam sessions as by European high art music, and yet beholden ...