Our 50 years ago in the avant-garde feature gets a workout in this podcast with landmarks by Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton, Derek Bailey, Luciano Berio and John Tavener, all unveiled during the same week in 1974. Alongside these superstars are new items by Steph Richards (trumpeter and bandleader), Daron Hagen (writing for a mix of Western and Japanese instruments), Brian Inglis (embracing the recorder as a vehicle for modern music), and Horse Lords (purveyors of microtonal, minimalist-inflected avant-rock). We give Paul Sperry a fond farewell with a survey of favorite recordings by this most unstereotypical of American tenors. A George Walker piano miniature in its premiere recording plus a John Luther Adams memento recorded by bassist Robert Black just before his death round out the playlist. Creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, originally aired June 30, 2024.
