Darcy James Argue wrote:
Don't be asinine. The classic Ornette Coleman quartet wasn't "into
meter"? Somebody should have told Billy Higgins, Charlie Haden, and Ed
Blackwell -- these are some of the greatest rhythm section players of
all time. And while Don Cherry was not the person Dean was thinking of,
he was a brilliant musician who did actually *did* do a lot of
mixed-meter stuff in the 1970's. Dave Holland -- whose current band
seems to play in every meter imaginable except 4/4 -- says he learned to
play mixed meters from Don Cherry, and Dave still teaches that system
when he does student workshops. (I learned it from Dave at the Banff
Jazz Workshop, and it is a *great* system.)
I would have hoped that Ornette Coleman getting a well-deserved Pulitzer
this year would finally put an end to ignorant, knee-jerk dismissals of
him and his associates. I'm greatly disheartened to see that's not yet
the case.
What, we're not allowed to criticize someone we don't like?
I've always been disheartened by knee-jerk approvals of garbage.
--
David H. Bailey
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