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In the middle years of the 1920s, Louis Armstrong tilted the balance. Compare the 1923 recordings of King Oliver’s Creole Band, where Armstrong is still mostly held in check and blends in with the rest of the band, with his brash trumpet pyrotechnics on “West End Blues” from 1928. In just five years, jazz evolved from a balanced team sport to a pla
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Cliché is not desirable.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Andrew Trovato, an American composer who uses elements of tonality in his works, said that “the high level of playing masks the compositi... See more
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Dischner is the only Paradise City member who naturally looks like a GNR doppelgänger. He’s also the guy who makes the trains run on time; he handles the money, coordinates the schedules, and generally keeps his bandmates from killing each other. All of these guys are friendly, but Dischner is the most relentlessly nice. He’s also mind-blowingly id
... See moreChuck Klosterman • Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
crisis of taste,
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
David Teiger, a New York–based collector in his late seventies.