A Ferment of World Jazz Yields a Trove of Tapes, The New York Times
The composer and pianist Frederic Rzewski, far right, teaching a workshop at Creative Music Studio, which is now releasing tapes from many of its sessions. raymond ross
“…Its (CMS) instructors were active performers and bandleaders, and they used the school as laboratory and playground. …Certainly the discoveries of the students — there were never more than 30 a term — were matched by the discoveries of the teachers. The studio did not promote one style because its teachers were too stylistically diverse. But a handful of important bands or records would not have happened without the studio as a spur, where the players were introduced to one another and the ideas were hatched.“
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