Better than a boor. Really uncouth.
Twas in jest but with some truth. You must be confusing them with Dave
Brubeck.
Gerald Berg
On 3-May-07, at 12:58 PM, 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.
Cheers,
- Darcy
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On 03 May 2007, at 12:42 PM, Gerald Berg wrote:
No he played with Ornette Coleman. They weren't into meter at all.
He was barely into trumpet playing.
Jerry
Gerald Berg
On 3-May-07, at 12:18 PM, Stu McIntire wrote:
Don Cherry, I think
Stu
Who was that jazz tpt. player, prominent back in the late sixties,
who used to do charts with meters like 87/4, etc? I think his first
name was Don .....
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