Web Letters: The Art of the Improviser

By David Yaffe

This article appeared in the May 14, 2007 edition of The Nation.

April 26, 2007

Write a Web letter about this article.

What's a Web Letter?

Web Letters are continuously published e-mails from real people, signed with their real names. No registration is required. Each article page on The Nation includes a Web Letters link.

Read the best Web Letters on this page.

We're committed to publishing your comments as they are received. We place a red star () on the best submissions and may edit your e-mail for length or content. Your e-mail address will not be published or shared with any third party without your consent.

If you prefer, you may submit a letter to the print edition only.

We look forward to hearing from you.

  • What a magnificent article about an artist with a unique, astonishing vision and the courage to pursue it for decades!

    Sound Grammar deserves its honor, and may finally bring his earlier work, which is as fresh now as it was then, to more and more listeners.

    I would be happy to have the author comment upon Coleman's "untutored" violin playing, and as well as upon the employment of his son Denardo from the time of The Empty Fohhole.

    Bernard Freydberg

    Slippery Rock, PA

    05/05/2007 @ 3:37pm


Advertisement
Advertisement

Blogs

» The Beat

Obama's "Finish the Job" Talk Sets Stage for Afghan Troop Surge | But Appropriations Committee chair Obey warns the move would "wipe out every initiative we have to rebuild our own economy."
John Nichols
8 Comments

» The Notion

Bad Black Mothers | For African American women, reproduction has never been an entirely private matter.
Melissa Harris-Lacewell
18 Comments

» Act Now!

Coal Country | Stunning film reveals new dimensions to the cost of America's over-reliance on coal.
Peter Rothberg
84 Comments

» The Dreyfuss Report

A Kingdom of Bicycles No Longer | China's ambassador for climate change speaks on the eve of the Copenhagen summit meeting.
Robert Dreyfuss
40 Comments

» Editor's Cut

Around the Nation | The week we went Rouge. Plus, Moyers on Afghanistan.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
114 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Friday | The "Second Amendment" sale; the raving paranoids of the right.
Eric Alterman