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MARY HALVORSON, born in Boston in 1980, her mother a nurse, her father a landscape architect, has become one of jazz’s prime guitarists.
She began on the guitar at 11 with early influences from Hendrix to the Beatles to Monk, Coltrane, Miles and Ornette, became interested in free improvisation at school and after studying with alto saxophonist Anthony Braxton has been “working as a musician my whole life.”
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