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Cecil Taylor: This Music is the Face of a Drum

by Robert Levin
August 8, 2010

The following is a chapter from “Going Outside: Fiction * Commentary * Jazz." robert-levin.com.As an artist-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin, Cecil Taylor has finally been able to realize a long-held ambition--the command of a large orchestra. Comprised of fifteen of his students (and augmented by Jimmy Lyons, Sam Rivers, Leroy ...

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Don Preston: Just Another Duo From LA

by Rex Butters
April 22, 2010

Just a few miles east of the Whisky a Go Go, where they stunned the world over 40 years ago with the classic Mothers of Invention, keyboardist Don Preston and saxophonist Bunk Gardner returned to Sunset Blvd. as The Don and Bunk Show, reviving their duo homage to the early music of Frank Zappa. Dolores Petersen ...

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Bill Dixon: In Medias Res

by Clifford Allen
September 15, 2009

Trumpeter and composer Bill Dixon is one of those rare figures in creative music who was both there as it took its initial steps and currently remains at the forefront of contemporary improvisation. In the last two years, he has directed or co-led orchestral configurations and recorded and performed with hand-picked small groups of international renown. ...

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Michael Mantler: Review

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 23, 2007

Le corde. Quelle classiche, prestigiose, dei violini del Balanescu Quartet o della London Symphony Orchestra e quelle elettriche, delle chitarre di Rick Fenn, Larry Coryell, Mike Stern. I testi. Quelli di Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Paul Auster, Giuseppe Ungaretti. Le voci. Di Mona Larsen, Karen Mantler, Jack Bruce, Marianne Faithfull, ma soprattutto quella unica, inconfondibile, senza ...

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Michael Mantler: Movies/More Movies

by C. Andrew Hovan
September 1, 2001

As a founder of the Jazz Composers Orchestra, charter member of Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra, and a frequent collaborator with composer and wife Carla Bley, Austrian-born Michael Mantler has served as catalyst to many important avant-garde events over the years, even if his own musical message skirts just under the radar of conventional audiences. Among ...

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