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This story begins, as many good ones do, with a gay man from Oskaloosa playing cello in a closet in a Buddhist seminary. It ends with a gentle and brilliant musician dying in New York long before his time. In between, the cellist, Arthur Russell, wrote orchestral music, produced disco hits, and recorded a body of solo cello-and-voice songs that fit somewhere between lullabies and art songs. The structural sprawl and harmonic flux common to what has come to be called "intelligent dance music" (a phrase Russell would have hated) and the songs of rock bands like Wilco and Radiohead characterized his music from the start.
An English label called Soul Jazz has just ...