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Almost four decades after his death, the legacy of Albert Ayler is simply — various reed-biting aural contortionists bent in exploiting the saxophone’s propensity to make sounds that resemble a human scream. Many such players, struggling to play anything resembling a coherent melody, rely rather on the severe manifestations from …

Needless to say, like many avant-garde experimenters and musical iconoclasts, Kondo’s early musical influences were largely straight-ahead jazz, especially hard bop. Certainly, the name of his university music group, the Funky Beaters, pretty reeks of hard bop attitude, particularly if one subscribes to the idea how the nickname “bop” originated …