Musical Afrofuturism

George Lewis was featured in a profile by Steve Krakow for the Chicago Reader.

“I consider Lewis the epitome of Afrofuturism—he enacts the “ancient to the future” motto of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), a vital Black arts organization with which he’s been involved since 1971. He’s never lost his mooring in jazz, a quintessentially Black art form, but he’s constantly looking forward, expanding his sound with cutting-edge technology, chance-driven elements, and new philosophies. And he does all this with a playfulness that keeps him from sounding stodgy and impenetrable—he combines his iconoclasm with inviting warmth.”

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