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John Corbett is a writer, curator, and producer based in Chicago. He is co-owner of Corbett vs. Dempsey, an art gallery. Corbett is the author of several books, including Extended Play: Sounding Off from John Cage to Dr. Funkenstein , Microgroove: Forays into Other Music , A Listener’s Guide to Free Improvisation , Vinyl Freak: Love Letters to a Dying Medium , and Pick Up the Pieces: Excursions in Seventies Music . As an essayist and reviewer, Corbett has written for numerous academic and commercial publications, including DownBeat, The Wire, The Chicago Reader, The Chicago Tribune, NKA, Bomb, LitHub, and Lapham’s Quarterly. Corbett has edited or co-edited many books, including several on the musicians Sun Ra and Peter Brötzmann, as well as the 125 books and catalogs that his gallery, Corbett vs. Dempsey, has produced, and he has contributed to major museum monographs on artists including Jim Lutes, Charline Von Heyl, Christopher Wool, Albert Oehlen, and Sadie Benning, and essays on artists Rachel Harrison for the Art Institute of Chicago and Bob Thompson for the Museum of Modern Art, NY. Corbett’s work as a music producer includes his label, the Unheard Music Series, which existed from 1999-2006, and Corbett vs. Dempsey, an ongoing label issuing CDs of new and historical jazz, experimental music and improvised music. In 2002, Corbett was invited to be guest artistic director of JazzFest Berlin, and he co-produced the Empty Bottle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music as well as a weekly series of concerts at the club of the same name. He has organized many musical events and festivals, most recently a series at the Art Institute of Chicago and stand-alone events at the Guggenheim Museum of Art, NYC, and the Menil Collection, Houston. As a curator, Corbett has been involved in many exhibitions at museums including the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago , the Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY , Sullivan Galleries, the School of the Art Institute, Chicago , and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia . Corbett taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1988 to 2014.

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John Corbett

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Books from John Corbett

A Listener's Guide to Free Improvisation

Pick Up the Pieces: Excursions in Seventies Music

The Wisdom of Sun Ra: Sun Ra's Polemical Broadsheets and Streetcorner Leaflets

Vinyl Freak: Love Letters to a Dying Medium

Extended Play: Sounding Off from John Cage to Dr. Funkenstein

Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn and Chicago's Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-68

Microgroove: Forays into Other Music

Beginning Old English

Traveling the Spaceways: Sun Ra, the Astro Black and other Solar Myths

Sun Ra + Ayé Aton: Space, Interiors and Exteriors, 1972

Bullets for Dead Hoods: An Encyclopedia of Chicago Mobsters, c. 1933

Art in Chicago, 1945-1995

Albert Oehlen: Terpentin 2012 Turpentine

Exploring English With Online Corpora: An Introduction

Charline Von Heyl: Snake Eyes

Monster Roster: Existentialist Art in Postwar Chicago

Touch and Go: Ray Yoshida and His Spheres of Influence

Exploring English with Online Corpora

Arturo Herrera: Series

Scotland as Science Fiction