Steven Schick playing "North Star Boogaloo." Photograph: Erin Baiano/The New York Times
International Contemporary Ensemble: George Lewis Composer Portrait at Miller Theatre
The New York Times, November 14, 2011
Happy as I am with most of this review, I'm still kind of amazed that I managed to write an entire piece on George Lewis without once mentioning Chicago, where he came from and where his aesthetic was shaped early on by his activities in the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, or A.A.C.M. Lewis's history of the organization, A Power Stronger Than Itself, is sprawling, detailed and authoritative.
Still, I'm pleased to have smuggled a link to an audio track from the great Anthony Braxton live album Quartet (Dortmund) 1976 into the first paragraph (thanks, YouTube!). It was also fortuitous that a Zora Neale Hurston essay cited in the final graf was available in its entirety online. And, finally, with absolute respect to all the great photographers who share my beat for The New York Times, I'm unfailingly deighted with the images that Erin Baiano provides.
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