Tales of the Chief Describer

Tales of the Chief Describer

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Tales of the Chief Describer
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(February 28 belated) William Winant, Brooklyn NY
New Music America: The Secret History of Music of the Eighties

(February 28 belated) William Winant, Brooklyn NY

With Chris Brown, Jon English, T. Tomita, Jim Pomeroy, Larry Polansky, Gordon Mumma, James Tenney, Michael Fink, Michael Byron, David Rosenboom, Somei Satoh, Lou Harrison, Anthony Braxton, Dan Lentz

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(February 28 belated) William Winant, Brooklyn NY
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Winant

A rare same-date omission, owing that my basic minimal birth date research being my Facebook friends list and Wikipedia for exact dates and they came up empty in William Winant’s case! Thanks to one of his friends for giving me the chance to be close enough for 2024…

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Of course this is your one stop shopping/information site: williamwinant.com (I’ve reposted the covers of his albums below)

The first of many times that I’d see William Winant (sometimes not aware of it being so!) was at my first NMA, 1984 in Hartford in the context of a trio he was in with Chris Brown and Jon English. It was quite a lineup:

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