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Well, it's 104 singles.

Same styles (I think) - or close...

Yeah, she refers to herself as retired, but it's from her later teaching job at Plano East Senior High. The library gig is just a thing to do. She's in her mid-80s.

My high school English teacher is a librarian in Plano.

Public Instagram statement In the early ‘80s when I was deeply *inside* the Man’yōshū - reading thru it and extracting an experimental text I was writing, John Cage recommended that I should contact Tone and send him the manuscript. His work in and outside of Fluxus (could he actually “be” outside of Fluxus?) was nearly always captivating. Sad to hear this, and … 90!

I guess you'd have to be at a New York library - especially the "Lincoln Center" branch - to find that disc in such a place. Surprised that Nate doesn't mention the Avant label one ... but, it was my first full introduction to his work (the CRI and Opus One ones were partial intros). Anyway, you'll get a good overview above, but if you've already got full access online, then there you go...

Yeah, I've been on the floor searching for a 50 year old magazine while helping someone create a promo for this Wednesday's show ... and I came across this little gem from 2019. If you like what you read above, you can still get copies thru Bandcamp for $15.

Former Gang Of Four Bassist Dave Allen Dead At 69

I'm often buoyed by Braxton's words - even if they conflict some with my ideas and work.

Anthony Braxton on his six decades in music: ‘It’s about the hope of the future’

Fearlessly forward-thinking large scale works. Have enjoyed her work for many years.

Eternity’s Pillar Throughout the mid-1980s, viewers tuning in late at night to Los Angeles’s KTTV Channel 11 could catch a broadcast unlike any other: ETERNITY’S PILLAR, a journey through the astral plane created and hosted by jazz visionary and spiritual guru Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda. Blending music, meditation, chanting, and an avant-garde video-art aesthetic, this singular audiovisual experience—four episodes of which are presented here—is a sublimely cosmic expression of Coltrane’s deep-held belief in music’s capacity to attain spiritual transcendence.

I was thinking about him again yesterday. It actually was a result of listening to a different band than Soft Machine. I have the Nucleus BBC sessions (with musicians who joined Soft Machine) loaded up in my car and've been enjoying that lately, and I was thinking about how much it sounded like SM mixed with Miles' electric 70s era. Anyway, he was a major part of my life growing up. Always, the recluse. Sometimes showing up for special projects, but, unfortunately, rarely. "He was the backbone of Soft Machine."

Bullets and blues "A new book reveals the jazz musician’s mother and sister were arrested several times for prostitution in New Orleans."

Perkins