Gerald Berg wrote:
No he played with Ornette Coleman. They weren't into meter at all. He was barely into trumpet playing.
I saw him in concert at Dartmouth college in Spring of 1970, and was dumbfounded at how horrible it was. Just him on pocket trumpet, Okay Tamiz (never heard of him before or after that concert) on drums if I recall correctly and Johnny D'Jahni (sp?) on bass. And it never seemed as if any of them were listening to each other or even paying attention to themselves.
The program listed two different titles for the first half, then it said INTERMISSION then listed a third title for the second half of the concert.
It turns out the intermission was when Don Cherry walked off the stage. The bass and drums kept right on playing, non-stop, until he walked onstage again and resumed his total isolationist playing without paying any attention to the others.
It was a real eye-opener that people who could play that poorly and that unorganizedly couldget paid. In hindsight, I should have asked who their agent was so that I could have gotten some non-playing gigs like that.
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