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Boxhead Ensemble: Nocturnes
by Karl A.D. Evangelista
Derek Bailey, the doyen of free improvisation, took note of the surprising survival tactics of the younger generation of improvisers--"the kind of manoeuvers sometimes found necessary to safely negotiate the mire thrown up in culturally inclement times, sometimes compromise, sometimes regression. Much has changed since Bailey wrote Improvisation (Da Capo, 1980), from which the foregoing quote was plucked; the improvised music landscape has long since cycled past those initial rounds of creative exhaustion, and the palette of the improviser has ...
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