IN the 1990s Mazz emerged as one of the hottest, most innovative bands in the history of Tejano music. When the band produced a series of albums that ventured into mariachi rancheras, pop ballads and ...
The writer and critic Amiri Baraka (1934-2014) spoke of free jazz in terms of an essential and spiritual Blackness. Further, he described a return to collective improvisation as the "all-force put ...