Lyn Horton: I Got the Feelin’
Pervasive in the literature whose subject is music that originates from the black experience is a stream of thought that is anti-critic, anti-criticism, anti-putting into words any interpretation of...
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How information is assembled gives it meaning. Way back when information theory sprang up in the burgeoning age of the computer, if a vacuum tube was on or off, it was conveying one bit of information....
View ArticleLyn Horton: Curtis Clark, Connie Crothers, and Joe Bonner—Exploring the World...
Published March 8, 2009 at AllAboutJazz.com: Sitting at the piano before playing it is somewhat like sitting at a drawing table in front of a blank piece of paper before drawing on it. The keyboard is...
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Lyn Horton: Kidd Jordan and Trio Goes to Town
originally published at AllAboutJazz.com Photo credit: Lyn Horton During one of the most tempestuous winters in memory, the twentieth season of the Magic Triangle Series at UMass Amherst began with the...
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Lyn Horton: Perspective on Vision Festival XIV
copyright © 2009 Lyn Horton Response to the Vision Festival, held in NYC for the past fourteen years, resists prosaic declarations and superlatives. Rather the Festival inspires poetry because the...
View ArticleLyn Horton: Don’t Blame Me
Recently, Chris Kelsey wrote a blog entry that brings to light a question of the difference between jazz “journalism” and jazz “writing.” (September 5: http://chriskelsey.com/blog/) This is my...
View ArticleLyn Horton: Top Ten +1+1 2009
1. Joe McPhee, Michael Bisio, Dominic Duval, Paul Rogers, Claude Tchamitian: Angels, Devils and Haints, cJr7; 2. Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: The Moment’s Energy, ECM; 3. Ben Neill: Night...
View ArticleLyn Horton: Take It From the Top
It is the end of the year. No, the first decade of the 21st century. And I do feel the anvil of time descending from the sky to crush me. My own age. I hear the horns, the bass and the drums from the...
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Lyn Horton: Making One Last Point
During the last two weeks in January of 2010, the jazz media flooded the avant-garde jazz public with descriptions of the persona of Matthew Shipp in anticipation of the release of his “last” solo...
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Brought to You, Personally, from My Blog
Before The Storm Irene, August, 2011 copyright 2011-2 Lyn Horton For a long time, I have, in the back of mind, been considering writing exclusively for my blog and that time has come. It behooves me...
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