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On "Round Midnight" and other Spheres.
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A look at what a nightclub is, has been, and might become in order to stop being a threat to the survival of love and great music.
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If smiles are open parentheticals John Coltrane’s is where I’d like to travel—a borderless crescent slivering with ecstatic grief and troubled abandon.…
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On controversy as liberation and the musicians who exploit it.
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On the use of Earth Wind and Fire's "Reasons" in the film Killer of Sheep.
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Notes on live recordings and liveness and living archives
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It was such a scandal in the 1960s, to come from the black future and bend time to its will. Albert Ayler’s sound was a scandalous sunset on the wester…
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On Abbey Lincoln's version of "Love for Sale"
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On Actress and how we act out our subconscious expectations
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A poem for my father on his birthday
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The Mingus sections from a 1964 Jazz roundtable, because I love him
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Shirley Ann Lee's Someday
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