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B. Lancaster
B.Lancaster/ O.Pope/ E.Crockett/ J.R. Mitchell: Philadelphia Spirit in New York
by Derek Taylor
Philadelphia certainly seems to receive only grudging affirmation in relation to other urban centers in the larger cosmology of creative improvised music. It’s a crime considering the fact that a solid scene has been thriving there for years. New York and Chicago may have the corner market, but bands like this jointly fronted quartet are surely gaining ground through the purity and convictions conveyed through their collective sounds. Byard Lancaster is something of a cottage industry and figurehead himself. As ...
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