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Very occasional quote of the day: mistakes

  • September 25, 2019
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“The idea of a mistake is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.” – John Cage

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Humanizing the hard stuff

  • February 1, 2011
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Over at Four on the Floor Jon McCaslin has posted several great duo videos featuring Max Roach, including clips with Dizzy Gillespie, Randy Weston, and this with Cecil Taylor: Max really warms up Cecil’s thing, […]

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1996 Paul Motian interview, part 4: Rumba Beat on a Tom Tom

  • January 28, 2011
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Fourth part of my excerpts of  Chuck Braman’s 1996 Paul Motian interview: FREE: Chuck: When you first heard people actually playing free, how did it strike you, coming from a background rooted so strongly in […]

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