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Eyebrows were raised in the jazz globe when it had been announced that the relatively obscure and teen Ken Vandermark was to get a 1999 MacArthur Genius offer. Prior MacArthur recipients among jazz music artists consist of Cecil Taylor and Anthony Braxton — near-legendary statistics who, during the period of …

Drummer Paal Nilssen-Love stormed the Norwegian jazz picture in the first ’90s and it has been functioning relentlessly since both in traditional and avant-garde jazz. It wasn’t a long time before he jumped for the metaphorical freight teach Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustaffson got founded between Scandinavia and Chicago; the drummer …