fromLos Angeles Times
12 hours agoThurston Moore documents his obsession with free jazz in a new book
Thurston Moore is obsessed with jazz. Not the mellow, easy-listening variety that serves as background music in elevators and waiting rooms. No, Moore goes for the hard stuff: wailing saxophones, arrhythmic bass lines, drums that follow beats so out of time they might as well come from the deepest reaches of space. Call it broadcasts from Planet Jazz. We're talking free jazz, an experiment in improvisational music that captivated the world's greatest jazz musicians in the second half of the 20th century.
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