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Jazz Festival Season and the Aesthetics of Chance

Joseph Murphy | August 16, 2012

Festival • n. 1 a day or period of celebration, typically for religious reasons. 2 an organized series of…

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Palimpsest

Joseph Murphy | May 24, 2012

Palimpsest: Jazz and the Generational Continua am Palimpsest – 1.A parchment or other surface which later writing has been…

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Turnarounds; 2011

Joseph Murphy | May 24, 2012

In a year of global turmoil, occupied streets and roiling markets, jazz continued its plodding pace in the new…

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Freedom and Form: Jazz, Politics and the Practice of Freedom

Joseph Murphy | January 4, 2012

The sword that caused the wound must also heal the wound Wagner/Parsifal One spring evening in the early eighties,…

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Antiphony in Action

Joseph Murphy | January 4, 2012

In 1964, arguably the height of what MLK Jr., called, “The Freedom Movement,” that found expression politically in the…

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Freedom and Form: Jazz, Politics and the Practice of Freedom

Joseph Murphy | December 20, 2011

“The sword that caused the wound must also heal the wound” Wagner/Parsifal One spring evening in the early eighties,…

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Passages

Joseph Murphy | June 8, 2011

Billy Bang And while still on strings, we note the passing of the exquisite jazz violinist Billy Bang, in…

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String Theories

Joseph Murphy | June 1, 2011

If you poke around the closets of your average jazz writer you are bound to come across the forlorn…

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Signifyin’ in Rhythm

Joseph Murphy | March 1, 2011

*They come in search of the source of the mystery” – Ralph Ellison The task of writing about jazz…

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Jazz Family Values

Joseph Murphy | November 29, 2010

“At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of…

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