Chicagoan John Corbett, gallerist, music critic, and occasional Reader contributor, has been working on a biography on the German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann for several years now, and I eagerly await its completion. Corbett knows both Brötzmann's music and the free-jazz icon's history inside and out, and he's one of few writers able to properly and meaningfully situate Brötzmann's work within a global context.…
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