Gregor’s Bed Wanda Waterman The Voice Magazine, Volume 22 Issue 37 2014-09-19 “Wrapped in a battered sheepskin jacket and peering though Coke-bottle-thick eyeglasses, Sartre lectured up and down the East Coast and was the subject of adoring articles in New York newspapers and magazines. ’One is free to act,’ he told reporters, ’but one must act to be free.’ Beboppers like Dizzy Gillespie and pianist Thelonious Monk picked up on him, appropriating the Left Bank café-intellectual style—the black beret, the horn-rimmed glasses, the wee goatee.” – Lewis MacAdams What is the “Avant-garde,” Really? (continued from here) The symbiosis was a … Continue reading The Fruitful Marriage of American Jazz and the Avant-garde, Part II