Thanks David
Darcy is obviously not into reading carefully and into responding
emotionally.
There must be a hounding of tastes.
I think Eddie Blackwell a magnificent musician.
No one like him. I love him. And yes he could play both rhythm and
meter. And he doesn't require this type of defense.
I like Ornette too.
But for Don Cherry-- it is true. I think him ridiculous.
And he could not play the trumpet.
Now if you want to talk about how he made the trumpet into something
else...
I guess that's true.
As for the "not into meter" comment -- if you read it-- I was clearly
referring to the Ornette band. You must have been thinking I was
talking about Dave Brubeck.
I'm glad for him that Cherry found 'Meter' later in life. We all gotta
go someplace.
Jerry
Gerald Berg
On 3-May-07, at 2:31 PM, dhbailey wrote:
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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