About the Author

Graham Lock is a freelance writer, Honorary Assistant Professor of American Music at the University of Nottingham, and author of several books, including Blutopia: Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton and Chasing the Vibration: Meetings with Creative Musicians. He is co-editor (with David Murray) of The Hearing Eye and Thriving on a Riff, two collections on jazz and blues influences in other African American art forms, and editor of Mixtery: A Festschrift for Anthony Braxton.