Lazaro Vega Posted September 21, 2009 Report Posted September 21, 2009 In preparing to rebroadcast Blue Lake's 2007 interview with Muhal Richard Abrams tonight this came up: http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/musi...-jazz04.article South Side legend Muhal Richard Abrams returns for Chicago Jazz Festival September 4, 2009 BY JOHN LITWEILER He was a widely admired, veteran bop pianist when the new free-jazz ideas of Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor and others led him to explore the new music in the early 1960s. He formed a daring group called the Experimental Band, in which a generation of young, brilliant, free-jazz musicians from the South Side grew their wings. Quote
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