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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. …

The critical buzz aroused by David S. Ware’s use Andrew Cyrille and Cecil Taylor within the ’70s acquired, by the past due ’90s, converted into a consonant roar. New York’s collective jazz press — often searching for the music’s following messiah — crowned Ware the “Ruler of Free of charge …