Thurston Moore

On free jazz, jamming with Cecil Taylor, becoming an ECM guy, and scaring the kids with late Coltrane.

“Thurston Moore just gave us a blurb for your book.”

So announced my UK editor just as Cosmic Music was entering its final stages of prep. Thurston doesn’t need an introduction, so let’s just say that when this news came through, I immediately time-traveled back to the forlorn teenaged ‘90s me stuck in South Texas listening to Evol on repeat and told hi…