Northern Sun, Southern Moon (Mike Heffley)

[clifford_thornton]

This is one step closer to an ideal pan-cultural study of free jazz and improvised music, well worth reading (despite more typos than the usual Yale text). Particularly enlightening for me was its delving into jazz in Eastern Europe, a subject about which I know very little.

I suppose that, for me, the philosophical implications in his visitation of the subject of "time" could have gone a little farther than they did, but it was cool to see non-Western temporal ideas applied to what is often considered a Western art music.

Here is a review I wrote on it for AAJ. Apparently ejazznews copped it without asking (dipshits), so please use this link for reference.

Northern Sun, Southern Moon Review

Happy Reading!

Clifford