Strictly Links

Anthony Braxton interview: Part One, Part Two

This next one is new to me, but not new in the just-published sense:

Amina Claudine Myers article/interview by George Lewis

A video preview of an upcoming documentary about Teo Macero

The Listener: "As Oliver Sacks observes the mind through music, his belief in a science of empathy takes on new dimension."

I just finished Oliver Sacks' book Musicophilia: interesting if not as engaging as the other reading I've completed recently on music cognition, most notably in a similar accessible writing style, Daniel Levitin's This Is Your Brain On Music. Heavy on the case studies, which are fascinating, but a little too light on presenting new or interesting theories and ideas about the cases themselves. If you're interested in all things music cognition, there's a blog that might be of interest to you.

Critical Improv Intensive by David R. Adler: An article about Ajay Heble and the "Improvisation, Community and Social Practice" (ICSP) research project.

Woody Herman opens for Led Zeppelin (05/1969)