Miscellany

Yusef Lateef: The Gentle Giant: Octogenarian world-music legend is preparing for a night of improvisational music at the Walker—just don't call it jazz.

"Jazz is defined as doggerel, skullduggery, poppycock, coquetry, sexual intercourse," he said recently from his home in Massachusetts. "It has nothing to do with what I do."

Keepers of the Chaos: North Philly free jazz outlaws Jamaaladeen Tacuma and G. Calvin Weston are still breaking the rules.