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Globe Unity Orchestra 1970
Here’s a half-hour performance by the Globe Unity Orchestra from German television, circa 1970. The performers: Alexander Von Schlippenbach: piano, percussion, leader Evan Parker: soprano & tenor...
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The Runners-Up: Peter Brötzmann
The Runners-Up is a monthly column, wherein we will analyze an album that isn’t the consensus first choice or most canonical title by a given artist, but is one worthy of more attention than it’s...
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For Example
The now-defunct jazz blog Destination: Out has the exclusive license to sell music from the German label FMP (Free Music Production) on Bandcamp. They’ve done a great job of curating the catalog, too,...
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Krzysztof Penderecki is one of Poland’s greatest composers. His works have expanded the parameters of orchestral music; his Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, premiered in 1960, deployed extended...
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Legendary saxophonist Peter Brötzmann turns 80 tomorrow, March 6. I’ve been listening to him for at least 25 of those years. I can’t remember the first album of his I heard, but it was probably Last...
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