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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 …

Paul Leka is one particular names that helps to keep arriving in tales regarding many fondly remembered tracks and rings (and also one non-band) through the 1960s onward. He was one particular rare really prodigious musicians who was simply as well talented to limit himself to really being a person …

Due to the fact they only charted one strike record and they scarcely even been around, the backdrop of the group Steam is usually amazingly complex. Their tale actually starts in Bridgeport, CT, in 1960-1961, with an organization known as the Chateaus, who cut a small number of unsuccessful information …

Jazz bassist Kent Kessler is most beneficial known for his component in various Chicago rings, usually in line-ups with reedsman Ken Vandermark. He initial began showing up on recordings in the first ’90s as an associate of Hal Russell’s NRG Outfit. The band continuing after Russell’s loss of life in …