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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 14 October, 2009 - 14:33

ByHoward Slater

The 'compositional improvising' of jazz, from big band to free to AACM, is, in its shared precarity, 'tellingly inarticulate' - writes Howard Slater in this month's Mute Music Column

Throwing handfuls

of pebbles on

the hollow tree

sprinkling of tones

thuds of sunder

coastal cymbals

subject: Jazz | Music

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