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Louis BarnesWhat Makes a Good Free Jazz Album?I mean it’s just random noise, right? How can you know?Apr 6, 20221
Tim CoughlinTBT — Live Performance Review — Roscoe Mitchell Douglas Ewert Ensemble 6.20.2021I gazed into the void of the saxophone, listening, once again adrift This time to a place that felt somewhat metaphysical and hard to defineMay 2
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Allen MichieReview of “Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure” by Maria GoliaOrnette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure By Maria Golia London: Reaktion ISBN: 978–1–78914–223–5 368 pp., $22.50 (hardback)Sep 12, 2023
Lucas GonzeColtrane Pitch DiagramsIn the mid 90s I was browsing in the bookstore at Berklee College of Music in Boston. I was looking for Slonimsky’s Thesaurus of Scales and…Mar 12, 20186