Amiri Baraka

Mitchell’s music is an eloquent paradigm for Du Bois’ “double consciousness,” the Afro-American “twoness,” the contradiction, between being American or black, though they are both. … Read More “Roscoe Mitchell: In Walked Buckner”

Free Jazz, Freedom Now, Freedom Suite reflected attempts to break out of the Tin Pan Alley penitentiary where creativity is imprisoned by money. Trane, Archie, … Read More “Von Freeman/Ed Petersen: Von & Ed”

Blue Boye Hemphill produced on Mbari. Ditto, “Dogon AD”, which struck a definite note of freshness, thoughtfulness, most impressive for the subtlety of its variations … Read More “Julius Hemphill: Blue Boye”