Tag: The Hemphill Stringtet

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For roughly half of the year I listened to everything, almost or near enough. Then I wilted, or the opposite of that, for come the summer I perked up in my stool and began to listen to summer ambiances like the chirping of birds, the splashing of hose pipes and water pistols or the sizzling of a barbecue. As...

From avant-garde pioneers like Anthony Braxton and Henry Threadgill to the esoteric works of the pianist Herbie Nichols and the double bassist and oud player Ahmed Abdul-Malik, there are some artists who loom large in the minds of contemporary jazz players and who have proved widely influential yet perhaps still rarely receive their due as composers. Braxton and Threadgill...