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#MilfordGraves & #NewYorkArtQuartet at #MichaelSnow’s Loft, c. 1960s #WillGamble https://www.instagram.com/p/CcgF8y-t02h/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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RIP Roswell Rudd

NY Times obituary

With groups like the New York Art Quartet and Archie Shepp’s bands of the mid-1960s, Mr. Rudd was at the center of the free-jazz scene. But he eventually moved on, teaching at colleges and collaborating with musicians from around the world.

After his return to commercial recording and international performances in 1999, his music became more diverse, mixing tuneful original compositions and jazz standards with R&B classics and ballads from France and Cuba.

What drew it all together was Mr. Rudd’s fluid playing, which could swiftly reroute a listener’s attention without disrupting the flow of a song.