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You think Willie Nelson is a marvel in the music world, still recording and performing at age 91? Say hello to Marshall Allen, longtime leader of the legendary Sun Ra Arkestra. Allen, 100, has been at ...

(Polychord is shorthand for "polytonal chords"; in layman's terms, those are chords that reference more than one key center, and they give Goode's ensemble writing a pronounced density.) "I'm a ...

This was magic of another sort! The final cadence framed a series of vivid, stark, polytonal arpeggios with two sustained electronic reverberations that recapitulated the opening sizzles. We received ...