AvantGarde
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Celebrity
Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Avant-Garde Jazz
listen on youtube ◆ ◆ ◆ Amirta Kidambi, composer and vocalist Triptych: Prayer/Protest/Peace by Max Roach and Abby Lincoln Expressions…
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Robert Black, Bass Virtuoso of the Avant-Garde, Is Dead at 67
“I felt like no one really trusted me,” he recalled in a 2015 interview. “I used to go to orchestra…
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At a Berlin Festival, Avant-Garde Theater from Europe and New York
We all walk with our luggage. For some, it’s clinging to the past or worrying about the future.The case is…
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Movies
An Avant-Garde Film That Went for Laughs Instead of Scandal
The early 1960s was the golden age of underground cinema. Some, like Jack Smith’s “Flaming Creatures,” caused scandals. Others were…
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Revisiting the Pyramids’ ‘Avant-Garde African Jazz,’ Four Decades Later
In the early 1970s, many jazz musicians turned to Africa directly for rhythm and inspiration, and a group of students…
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