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Acoustical Swing

Pierre Crépon

A space for free-form writing about jazz history, with a focus on 1960s and 1970s free jazz.

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Out There: Magnus Nygren’s Don Cherry Book Project

8” Pyral test pressing of Don Cherry’s Togetherness. Cherry family archives

If you have followed jazz publications these last few years, chances are you’ve come across Magnus Nygren’s work on Don Cherry. A former editor of OrkesterJournale...

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On Max Roach and the Effectiveness of Political Art

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This two-part essay begins with notes on a book about the effectiveness of political art, followed by a discussion of Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite. The book is anchored in a field...

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Current Trends in Right-Wing Music Appreciation: Claiming Ornette Coleman

Handbill for Ornette Coleman engagement at the Jazz Workshop, Boston, October 1970. Source: Boo-Hooray

This note is about an instance of recent scholarship on saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman that is admittedly of little significan...

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Sonny Simmons: A Playlist and Excerpts from an Obscure Sample Library

For the long-awaited publication of the autobiography of Sonny Simmons, Better Do It Now Before You Die Later, Sonny’s coauthor, Marc Chaloin, and I have compiled a selection of tracks from Sonny’s catalog. It is available online, following...

7 months ago
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The Black Panther Party, Elaine Brown, Emory Douglas: Selected Sources on Revolutionary Art

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