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Why do I like the Monktail Creative Music Concern and their seemingly endless roster of groups and subgroups? The Monktailers are brave (and sometimes crazy) enough to let a range of influences (funk, surf rock, straight-ahead jazz, avant chamber music) run rampant through their gigs, heralding a time when free improvisation will not only mean sonic points and planes but suggest all possible musics, from Bach to Boulez to bluegrass to the Briefs, at any and all possible moments. Chris DeLaurenti, The Stranger, Seattle