Re: This is your brain on jazz -- MRI studies of improvisation

["Krispen Hartung" <khartung@cableone.net>]

Wow, I'm glad everyone is so interested. I've sent a whole lot of you this 
PDF article now. Daryl, I'll send to you shortly.

Here is a better list of the books with complete author names. I also 
added 
some of the CDs I have been listening to lately, to educate myself on the 
breadth of free improv music. Many of these artists are recommended in the 
appendix of the Lewis article.

Literature
  a.. Improvsation - Derek Bailey
  b.. Arcana II: Musicians on Musis - John Zorn
  c.. Arcana Musicians on Music - John Zorn
  d.. Northern Sun, Southern Moon: Europe's Reinvention of Jazz - Heffley
  e.. Jazz Among the Discourses - Krin Gabbard
  f.. Free Jazz - Jost
  g.. As Serious as Your Life: John Coltrane and Beyond - Valerie Wilmer
  h.. Sync or Swarm: Musical Improvisation in a Complex Age - David Borgo
  i.. Forces in Motion; The Music and Thoughts of Anthony Braxton - Lock

My Discography (a few are missing, which I did not list)
  a.. Anthony Braxton - Six Compositions
  b.. Derek Bailey, Greg Goodman, Hendry Kaiser, Toshinori Kondo, Evan 
Parker, ROVA - The Science Set
  c.. Eugene Chadbourne - The German Horse
  d.. Fred Anderson - Back at the Velvet Lounge
  e.. Jim Staley - Mumbo Jumbo
  f.. Peter Brotzmann - Born Broke
  g.. Roscoe Mitchell - Quartet
  h.. Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis, Roscoe Mitchell - Streaming
  i.. Bob Ostertag -  Verbatim, Flesh and Blood
  j.. Voltage - Self Titled
  k.. Dempa - Nine Fragments
  l.. Evan Parker, Guy, Lyttton, Marylyn Crispell - Natives & Aliens
  m.. Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures
  n.. Joe Morris / Rob Brown Quartet - Illuminate
  o.. Derek Bailey - Carpal Tunnel
  p.. Derek Bailey - Aida
  q.. Derek Bailey & Cecil Taylor - Pleistozaen Mit Wasser
  r.. Derek Bailey & Greg Bendian - The Sign of 4
  s.. Derek Bailey, Pat Metheny, Greg Bendian, Paul Wertico - Science of 
Eduacation
  t.. Ornette Coleman / Pat Metheny - Song X
Kris


----- Original Message ----- 



> Krispen, I'd also very much be interested in the Lewis document...and 
> thanks for the various mentions of the books. I've been digging deep 
>into 
> anything Zorn these last few months so will have to look up the Arcana 
> tomes. I'm not much of a reader these days (feel too guilty not spending 
> the time making the music...) but I know it can offer inspiration.
>
> The last really good music books I've read were John Cage's "Silence" 
>and 
> the biography "Roaring Silence".
>
>> I'd love to read George's piece, Krispen...  do send me a pdf if the 
>> offer still stands.. please.
> Daryl Shawn
> www.swanwelder.com
> www.chinapaintingmusic.com
>