Links
Websites
Avant Music News - your source for the latest news in fringe music.
Ear of the Behearer - An interactive archive of jazz and creative music recorded between 1970 and 1989. Who says jazz died in the seventies? This is a database for documenting and discussing one of the richest—most overlooked and underrated—eras.
Downtown Music Gallery - your one stop shopping destination for the kind of jazz and music you won't find at your local Best Buy.
Point of Departure - an online music journal with excellent writing on a variety of improvised and composed music.
Restructures - Jason Guthartz's excellent discographies for Anthony Braxton, Hamid Drake, Mats Gustafsson and Clifford Thornton, as well as an extensive link library.
Essays
Sip My Ocean: Emptiness as Inspiration - an essay by Mark Epstein, M.D.
Experimental Music in Black and White: The AACM in New York, 1970-1985 [PDF] - a fascinating essay by George E. Lewis from the Spring 2001/2002 issue of Current Musicology
A collection of Anthony Braxton essays
Steve Coleman, M-Base, and Music Collectivism by Vijay Iyer
The Development of John Coltrane's Concept of Spirituality and Its Expression in Music
Interviews
Andrew Cyrille, 2003
Andrew Hill, 1996
George Lewis & Wadada Leo Smith, 1995
Lester Bowie and Malachi Favors, 1994
Milford Graves
Milford Graves, 2003
Myra Melford, Jospeh Jarman, Leroy Jenkins
Roscoe Mitchell and Amina Claudine Myers, 1995
Tommy Hunter talks Sun Ra, 1999