Chapter 05
Say No Score: a Lexical Improvisation after Bob Ostertag
...Flesh & Blood (2000) The first generation began with unreleased solo recordings by three veteran improvisers: drummer Joey Baron, contrabassist Mark Dresser, and vocalist Phil Minton (also a member of Richard Barrett’s fORCH, an ensemble I discuss in “Invitation to...
Chapter 03
Entextualization and Preparation in Patterson’s Variations for Double-Bass
...came its own inverse and complement: the concept of “entextualizuation”. […] The concept of entextualization […] opens the way to an integrated vision of the generation of cultural forms from the bottom up, in which misleadingly sharp binary oppositions can...