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Julius Eastman

Image accompanying a Village Voice article about the jazz musician Gerry Eastman.

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Gerry Eastman – Not Just His Brother’s Keeper

The jazz innovator talks about mixing things up, playing with jazz greats and pop stars, and why his brother, Julius, couldn’t abide John Cage.

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1991 obituary from the Village Voice archives on the brilliant minimalist composer Julius Eastman.

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That Which is Fundamental: Julius Eastman, 1940 – 1990

“The system was rigged against him. It's the same old Scott Joplin/Charlie Parker story, only with a different person. Julius is just another in the line of black geniuses who get squashed in this particular hemisphere.”

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Article from the Village Voice archives about the minimalist avant-garde composer Julius Eastman.

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Hammered Into Clouds: Nine Beginnings for Julius Eastman

The afterlife of a pioneering composer who changed New York, then disappeared

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