Alex Ross “publicly champions
Cecil Taylor . ..  lists the rather obscure FMP big band record
“Alms/Tiergarten (Spree)” as among his favorite pop/jazz recordings and wrote an
appreciation of the maestro (paired with Sonic Youth) in The New Yorker way
back in ’98 . I wish
more classical critics and fans would deal with avant-garde jazz and
vice-versa. These musics have much in common and it seems a bit arbitrary to
choose one absolutely over the other. Howard, I’d be curious to know how much
you seek out modern classical and what you make of it. 

Well, it’s like this . . .