The Village Voice, August 8th, 2007
Interval Roswell Rudd's triumphant return to projectile trombone excellence For the good of his or her soul, every critic ought to perform at least one good deed. Mine entailed schlepping to a Catskills resort in 1991-braving poolside yoga classes and investment seminars, not to mention cocktail hour and the nightly floor show-in search of Roswell Rudd. Before going missing in the mid'8Os, Rudd was lionized by critics as the archetypal free-jazz trombonist, the pre-eminent voice on that horn after J.J. Johnson. But Rudd was equally admired by critics hostile or indifferent to free jazz, and...
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