Night After Night

Writing, a blog, and a newsletter. By Steve Smith.

Peter Kowald

  • Jazziz: Illuminating Downtown’s Dark Years.

    Charles Gayle in 'Rising Tones Cross' JazzizJuly 1999 The early 1980s were a period of transition for the avant-garde fringe in New York. The loft scene – the days in which Ornette Coleman's hom on Prince Street and Sam Rivers' Studio Rivbea provided workshops for experimenters to develop their art –was drawing to a close,

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