A Lark Ascending Posted April 7, 2015 Report Posted April 7, 2015 (edited) Part performance, part venue and part art installation, a collection of structures in New Orleans are bringing the avant garde to the city of jazz. Celebrated jazzman William Parker plucks his bass in a grove on an abandoned golf course in New Orleans’s City Park. The 11-strong ensemble he leads makes a strange kind of music.... http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/apr/06/new-orleans-music-box-jazz-art-shanty-town Edited April 7, 2015 by A Lark Ascending Quote
JSngry Posted April 10, 2015 Report Posted April 10, 2015 I think the avant-garde done been in the city of jazz for a fair bit of a while now. Quote
johnblitweiler Posted April 11, 2015 Report Posted April 11, 2015 Louis Armstrong was surely avant garde in New Orleans before he came to Chicago. Quote
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