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In the first ’90s, the direct music heirs of Taylor, Ayler, and Coleman were mostly ignored by NY jazz critics, who found even more to like about the hard bop revivalists who dominated major-label documenting. Hence, the general public presence of musicians specialized in an “energy music” visual was minimal. …

Although jazz drummer Gerald Cleaver continues to be known in the Detroit area as an excellent musician and educator because the early ’90s, he had not been so well-known to listeners beyond the Midwest until an explosion of recordings released beginning in 1999 brought his effective and tasteful drumming towards …

Boy of microtonal clarinetist, saxophonist, pianist, improviser, theorist, and composer Joe Maneri, Mat Maneri began performing music along with his dad when he was only seven. Though Joe was a tale among avant-garde and jazz music artists, boy Mat surpassed his father’s documented output in a comparatively short period of …

Jazz pianist and key pad participant Craig Taborn began functioning professionally within the 1990s in a number of musical contexts, which range from more straight-ahead jazz to more outdoors music, with small jazz music artists, seasoned veterans, and also techno performers. In his hometown of Minneapolis, Taborn analyzed piano, structure, …