Scratch My Brain on
listening to free jazz. I've had much the same approach to "focusing the ears" on different musical levels, but most probably do it at a less refined level than Jeff.
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Fred Kaplan
discusses Monk's Pulitzer citation.
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A hidden face of the music industry:
the music publisher. Isn't Martin N. Bandier the very portrait of what you expect a pre-hip hop industry shark to look like?
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