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May 18, 2013

George Lewis

Trombone, computers, and beyond

by Piotr Michalowski

posted 10/1/2007

Over forty years ago, four Chicago musicians founded the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) as a radical self-help group for nurturing, performing, recording, and teaching original music. Six years later a young trombonist named George Lewis formally joined the organization, studying composition with one of the founders, Muhal Richard Abrams, and learning through apprenticeship and performance. Some AACM members stayed in Chicago, providing guidance to successive generations of musicians, while others found acclaim

 
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