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Thank you for reading, listening and community musicking. That and the fact that I am close to many of the musicians who created this music made the conflict of interest very real. But so is my desire to share a real-life perspective and context I feel is being left out in popular discussions of these two great albums, which is what I hope the below provides. The choice is yours.
A couple of years ago I produced a Dada Strain radio series that explored different stories about rhythm, improvisation and community.
She introduced us. And vice-versa, past and future. Free jazz is sometimes conceptualized in a similar way, as an antithetical response to the form and industry of jazz, to a preexisting, somewhat oppressive โ culturally, financially, socially โ system of music, of entertainment, of art.
A grassroots art movement created from the ground up. Stewart and Branch both practiced this sermon. And all that playing does not even touch how much show-organizing Luke and jaimie did, together and separately, around Chicago, New York and DC.
