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Hale Smith

Hale Smith was among the first BLACK composers to abandon dark folk music and, in the 1950s, turn into a mainstream modernist. As an achieved jazz pianist and arranger, though, he insinuated components of intensifying jazz into his mainly serial music inside a fusion that usually seemed entirely organic. Smith’s …

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