Both highly collaborative art forms often play on improvisation and the music of chance.
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David Dann on his new biography of blues-rock guitarist Michael Bloomfield
From Glencoe to Monterey Pop to oblivion: Michael Bloomfield’s huge talent and unique style changed rock guitar forever, but while Clapton and Hendrix entered the canon, he faded away.
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Jamila Woods builds on legacies that shook the world
On the new Legacy! Legacy!, Chicago singer and poet Jamila Woods lovingly details how art can learn from the past as it shapes the future.
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Two recent Tim Buckley releases from the vaults capture the singer’s improvisational genius
Taped during a 1969 Los Angeles engagement, Tim Buckley’s Venice Mating Call and Greetings From West Hollywood showcase his gift for spontaneous experimentation.
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A lost 1976 album from Brazilian musical polymath Hermeto Pascoal finally surfaces
Hermeto Pascoal’s idea-packed Viajando Com o Som: The Lost ’76 Vice-Versa Studio Session represents a major addition to his discography.
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Phil Cohran shaped the Black Arts Movement with his vision and discipline
Secret History pays tribute to its first subject, the late Phil Cohran, who cofounded the AACM, formed the Artistic Heritage Ensemble, and launched the Affro-Arts Theater.
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Our guide to the Chicago International Movies & Music Festival
More than five-dozen music-related dramas and documentaries screen at the Chicago International Movies & Music Festival.
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Percussionist Dan Weiss builds sonic sculptures from snippets of jazz drums on his new album
On Sixteen: Drummers Suite, Dan Weiss uses terse passages from the playing of legendary drummers to build rigorous, complex large-ensemble pieces.
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Louis Armstrong takes a complex solo in Court Theatre’s Satchmo at the Waldorf
Louis Armstrong takes a complex solo in Court Theatre’s Satchmo at the Waldorf
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Ono cofounder P. Michael on soul singer Billy Stewart
Current musical obsessions of Ono cofounder P. Michael and Lamont “Bim” Thomas of Obnox
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Guitarist Ryley Walker on the saxophone quartet that rearranged his brain jelly
Plus: Bike lawyer Colin Cameron on a song that sounds like Einstürzende Neubauten covering Leonard Cohen, the Reader‘s Luca Cimarusti on everything you could ever want to know about prog rock, and more
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You have no excuse to give anyone a holiday album
Especially now that you know about these ten amazing box sets from the likes of Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, Pierre Boulez, Captain Beefheart, and Wilco
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Listen to ‘Conference of the Birds,’ go see Dave Holland’s Prism on Saturday
Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is the title track off of the bassist’s 1973 album—he plays the Chicago Jazz Festival Saturday night.
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The Secret History of Chicago Music: Booker Little
Brilliant Chicago-schooled trumpeter Booker Little recorded dozens of albums—including several with Max Roach and Eric Dolphy—before his death at 23.
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Reader’s Agenda Sat 5/31: CAKE, the Dance Mile, and Corey Wilkes Quintet
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Saturday, May 31