Brandon Wilding

The Burning Bridge Project Brandon Wilding

This is not 52nd Street. The rich, white academics will no longer be given their structured,easy-to-listen-to jazz. This is Milton'sPlayhouse. This is the heart of music. Structure - time - form and properscales are dead here. This is the place that jazz progresses. 52nd Street is stale and lifeless. The bridge to 52nd Street has been burned down. This isImprovisational Writing. It lives through every typo - misspelling -misuse and grammatical mistake. It is music without sound. Withoutmeasures. Without Scales. Without time. Without prisons. Itis a hope to give life to something that has become so confined it can nolonger breathe. It may be one continuous mistake. But it is honest- true - uncompromising and unconfined. In a world that has a millionbookshelves lined with street maps to 52nd Street, this is a fresh note. It may be aflat note, nonetheless, it is a note.