standards, and his style ranges from refined to bombastic,
showing both classical training and his improvisational skills. Much
of his music makes use of unusual time signatures, which he
experimented with through much of his career, recording "Pick Up
Sticks" in 6/4, "Unsquare Dance" in 7/4, and "Blue Rondo A La
Turk" in 9/8, an experimentation begun with his attempts to put
music to the odd rhythms generated by various machines around
him on his parents' cattle ranch in a small town in the western
United States.*
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