Listening To A Revolutionary School

“During the dawning years of jazz education [the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, NY,] was the unmusic school, roughly analogous to Black Mountain College, the progressive school in North Carolina that brought together avant-garde writers, dancers and painters in the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s. The constant musical activity at the studio, in workshops and concerts, yielded about 400 hours of tapes.”