Tag: Conference of the Birds

• Top 40 Over 40.30: Duke Ellington, 1962

  

  One of the things I admire about the jazz tradition is the fluidity with which musicians move from being leaders to sidemen. Take an album like Conference of Birds by Dave Holland. I mostly knew Dave as a sideman for Anthony Braxton and Miles Davis. But then Braxton turns around and plays sideman for Holland’s…

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  January 4, 2021

  Folk Implosion, Music, Record Reviews, Top 40 Over 40

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