President's Breakfast

President's Breakfast: III C

by Mark Corroto
March 1, 2002

West Coast musicians have always played faster and much looser with “the rules" of musical order. Hard-boppers chilled to the cool sounds of Gerry Mulligan, while Dexter Gordon, Charles Mingus, and Art Pepper redefined bebop. Bobby Hutcherson and Charles Lloyd spoke the language of a post Coltrane world as Ornette Coleman rewrote the rules. Today the scene in the West remains defiantly separate from the East Coast jazz establishment, even with breakthrough artists like Charlie Hunter, Bill Frisell, and Wayne ...