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You may remember that whole Most Important Albums of the Decade discussion we had last week here at A Blog Supreme, in reference to the All Songs Considered feature. It didn't seem like we had done enough thinking about the great jazz of the decade. So I asked the regular stable of bloggers supreme to help fill in the gaps. First up: NPR senior producer Walter Ray Watson takes exception. --Ed.
Well, Patrick, your note about how free jazz is stealing from Main Street is all well and good. Yeah, it's making in-roads into more commonplace material for inspiration and discovery, uh huh, and you elect pianist Jason Moran's Black Stars as a representative. Admirable choice and argument: Sam Rivers holds his own, and his art and experience combines with Moran's into something entirely new on that album.
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