Gregory McGreevy

Location: Baltimore, MD, USA

Info: I am a long-time lover of music, starting with my dad's old Pink
Floyd albums, moving on to fusion LPs, and finally finding my true love of
the music world: free and avant-garde jazz. At my university, I studied
blues and jazz theory and history as a minor, and around that time I
started playing my own music and collecting records, which are still two of
my biggest hobbies/passions today. I've written about music for Impose
Magazine and on my own music blog (R.I.P.).

20 Favorites:

Frank Wright - Church Number Nine
Pharoah Sanders - Karma
John Coltrane - Ascension
Sun Ra - Changes often, but today it's Heliocentric Worlds Vol 2
Noah Howard - The Black Ark
Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch
Charles Tyler - Saga of the Outlaws
Frank Lowe - Black Beings
Alice Coltrane - Journey In Satchidananda
Alan Silva and the Celestrial Communication Orchestra - Seasons
Cecil Taylor - The World of Cecil Taylor
Bill Dixon - Intents and Purposes
Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity
Don Cherry - Mu Pt II
Peter Brotzmann - Machine Gun
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Mario Schiano - Sud
Horace Tapscott - Live at I.U.C.C.
George Russell - Electric Sonata for Souls Loved by Nature
John Tchicai with Cadentia Nova Danica - Afrodisiaca



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His current main circles of interest are those around Tim Berne (my favourite musician and composer for the last 20 years bar none), the Bristol school (Tippett, Dunmall), and omnipresent sidemen like Gerry Hemingway, Marc Ducret, and so many Europeans. 

In order to make ends meet and to create a better world, Joris is an educator.

That's the essence; everything else is accidental.

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Michael Attias - Renku In Coimbra (Clean Feed, 2009) ****

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