That Farm Kid Can Play: Matt Wilson’s Vanilla Fury
In the mid-40′s, when the young autodidacts of bebop swept away the Swing Era dance band leaders, a certain hauteur seemed to permanently attach itself to the music. (Dizzy Gillespie, a great entertainer-intellectual, was the exception.) In the 60′s, when Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane opened the door to a perfervid, squalling “New Thing,” jazz Read More
