A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music (University of Chicago Press) genre-migrated John Hicks has done a

John Hicks has done a service to jazz fans by exploring the music of Erroll Garner in greater detail"

their first in over 15 years

there are spots for pianist Carlton Holmes (who deserves to be better known)

Viva Plays guitar like a flaming sword

A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music (University of Chicago Press) genre-migrated John Hicks has done aAn ambitiously broad tome that has as its basic objective to tell the story of the music and arts movement known as the AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians), which the author joined as a teenager in the early 70s, but soon expands to take in the social and political upheavals of the 20th century as well as the particularities of the city that spawned it all: Chicago. Spanning different eras and generations, this is a very