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Article: David Murray. (includes discography)
- Article from:
- The Nation
- Article date:
- April 25, 1987
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David Murray
A brilliant improviser, adept multi-instrumentalist,talented arranger and gifted composer, 32-year-old David Murray has carved out a unique place for himself in modern jazz. Along with innovators such as Henry Threadgill, Butch Morris and Olu Dara, he is among the brightest stars to emerge from his generation. Drawing on his understanding of the past's best, like the Big Band music of Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus, he forges composed structures that can accommodate the explosive sonic and harmonic languages devised by the experimenters of the previous generation: Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy and Albert Ayler. They also swing ...
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