Archives for July 20, 2010

This was first a Rifftides post on March 24, 2006. Thanks to Bill Reed and David Ehrenstein for calling this to our attention. … [Read more...]

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees oneself. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution. —Igor Stravinsky At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under pretext … [Read more...]