Collective Soul The Jazz Composers Collective

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Collective Soul The Jazz Composers Collective
Jazz Education Journal
31
3
36-38, 40-42
1998/11
eng
0730-9791
Profiles jazz bassist Ben Allison and notes how he founded the Jazz Composers Alliance in the fall of 1992. States
that the collective is a non-profit organization which stages concerts outside of standard jazz venues. Comments
that the organization has staged sixty-four concerts, premiered over two hundred original compositions and
featured over thirty composers and one hundred musicians. Notes that while the group focuses on younger
musicians its board members include Lee Konitz, Joe Lovano, Andrew Hill and Dave Liebman.
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