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Peter Hansen - Peeter Uuskyla: JULY 1, 1979
by Mark Corroto
The year was 1979. Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols died, so did jazz legend Charles Mingus. While punk rock was in a duel with disco, jazz as commercial music was dying the death of a thousand cuts. Miles Davis was in hiding, as jazz fusion (the disco equivalent in jazz) was forcing the retirement of traditionalists. What survived, probably for its lack of money-oriented motives, was free jazz. Born of the fires lit by Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, and ...
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From: UllrBy Peeter Uuskyla