Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.

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Howard Slater
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In its encouragement of a group expression that supports musicians to ‘play beyond themselves’ and to evolve singularities within a shared ‘reservoir of artistic richness’, Howard Slater finds in jazz a response to the experience of oppression; one that evolved outside channels of sanctioned expression, and which preserves and propels a collective being.
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