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Albert King promises us, "I'll Play the Blues for You." And he keeps his promise, let me tell you.

Ronald Shannon Jackson Cecil Taylor Vernon Reid Melvin Gibbs Byard Lancaster Sonny Sharrock Peter Brotzmann Bill Laswell Aiyb Dieng James Blood Ulmer Albert Mangelsdorff Joseph Bowie Wadada Leo Smith Larry Ochs George Adams Bad Plus Django Bates Han Bennink Ed Blackwell Ed Thigpen? Ernest Dawkins Scott Fields Mike Garson Charles Gayle Globe Unity Orchestra Joe Harriott Roy Haynes TheoJorgensmann Jeanne Lee Joe McPhee Medeski, Martin, + Wood Misha Mengelberg Kenny Millions don Pullen Sam Rivers Alexander von Schlippenbach David S. Ware Matthew Shipp Susie Ibarra William Parker Bill Dixon Craig Taborn loft jazz scene Fred Anderson Fred Anderson's Velvet Lounge Ken Vandermark David Boykin Aaron Getsug Jeff Parker Kevin Drumm Nicole Mitchell Karl E.H. Seigfried Tim Berne Tim Berne's Bloodcount Borbetomagus Lounge Lizards James Chance James Blood Ulmer Sonny Sharrock Diamanda Galas Bill Laswell Bill Frisell punk jazz Evan Parker Archie Shepp M-Base Hermeto Pascoal Kaoru Abe Sergey Kuryokhin Derek Bailey Art Ensemble of Chicago Muhal Richard Abrams Anthony Braxton Roscoe Mitchell Hamid Drake Fred Van Hove Steve Lacy Lol Coxhill Vinko Globokar Ray Anderson Henry Kaiser Chris Speed Tom Abbs Assif Tsahar Matana Roberts Conny Bauer Vyacheslav Ganelin Vladimir Tarasov Masayuki Takayanagi Ivo Perelman Milford Graves

Ronald Shannon Jackson Cecil Taylor Vernon Reid Melvin Gibbs Byard Lancaster Sonny Sharrock Peter Brotzmann Bill Laswell Aiyb Dieng James Blood Ulmer Albert Mangelsdorff Joseph Bowie Wadada Leo Smith Larry Ochs

Amalgamation of elements of jazz tradition (especially free jazz and jazz fusion of 60s-70s) with instrumentation/concepts of avant punk rock (especially dissonant strains, no wave, grindcore, hardcore). Examples: John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Fred Frith, James Chance & the Contortions, Lounge Lizards. Roots of punk: Velvet Underground, Stooges, MC5. Roots of avant/free jazz: Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, Roscoe Mitchell, Sonny Sharrock.

Calculated Dissonance: Avant-Garde Jazz in the 1960s-1970s