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"There is no music without order---if that music comes from a man's innards. But that order is not necessarily related to any single criterion of what order should be as imposed from the outside. Whether that criterion is the song form or what some critic thinks jazz should be. This is not a question, then, …
So check this out - you can buy a download of "Streams and Chorus of Seed" by the Cecil Taylor Unit from Amazon for $.99. The 61 minute track is from the 1976 album Dark to Themselves. Features Raphe Malik on trumpet, Jimmy Lyons on alto, the recently deceased David S. Ware on tenor, and …
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Iain Anderson's 2007 book, This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture, successfully examines who decides the value of jazz and its meanings, especially in the 1950s and 1960s. His book focuses on the increased popularization of jazz and its acknowledgment, or designation, of it as “America's art form”; the construction of …
