In parliamentary elections on May 6th, Mr Nikolic's centre-right Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), won, taking, with its allies, 73 of the 250 National Assembly seats.
"I think he's doing a lot of positive, progressive, constructive work right now, " said Brown University English professor William Keach, the first member of the university's faculty to sign the statement of support.
Beginning in the late '50s, a good deal of that allure came from the compositions of Bley's then-wife, a composer and pianist born Carla Borg who, using the Bley surname, would become an enduring jazz progressive in her own right.
