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Alchemy In Real Time

SML's Spontaneous Music Live and the freestyle chemistry behind the quintet

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Jul 17, 2026
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Every generation of adventurous music seems to produce at least one ensemble determined to erase the line between composition and improvisation. In the late 1960s, Miles Davis dismantled jazz’s formal architecture until groove itself became the composition. German kraut originators Can treated repetition like a living organism…

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