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The Roma's signifiers are still source of both reverence and derision in the West. While their cultural product, from the great Django Reinhardt to the pop chart-ready sound of the Gipsy Kings, has been happily consumed, as a people they have been held at arm's length by a Europe still fixating typecasts of the thief and the mystic. Today, the Roma remain one of the most persecuted communities in Europe.

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