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Who Gets the Book?

his month’s musings were prompted by the arrival of a new book, Phil Freeman’s , and word of two others that are due to be published later in 2022, a biography of Bill Frisell by Irish journalist Philip Watson and a memoir by Henry Threadgill. You’ll read more about all three of; I’m just using them here as a platform for arguably pointless but enjoyable speculation.

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