Tag: Brown University
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Top 40 Over 40.34: Cecil Taylor Live in Berlin 1988
There are many impressive creative accomplishments in this series on artists making first rate albums over 40. But no one will ever match what Cecil Taylor did in 1989,at age 59: put out 11 incredible albums recorded the year before. Now granted, they are all live sets from a one month long festival recorded in…
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Pretty Bubbles Turning Into Grime
Michael Hudson has a new book out so I thought it was high time I posted some thoughts I’ve been meaning to write up about his last one, The Bubble and Beyond. I’ve posted before about Hudson’s 1973 classic Superimperialism, whose analysis of the economic strategy of American Empire was followed by a terrific 1977…