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Don Pullen: Ode to the Life Lived
by Raul d'Gama Rose
He is being carried on wings, a Black Icarus, further up, higher than the sun, so the wings will not fail this time. They carry him and the fingers of his left--and all those mad block chords from God knows where--and his right hand--running along the ebony and ivory keys drawing clusters of notes ...
Toronto Jazz Festival 2008
by Raul d'Gama Rose
I will never forget my excitement--years ago--at learning that it would be possible for my family to live in Toronto again. I had been researching a book on Charles Mingus and often listened to one of my favorite vinyl records--The World's Greatest Concert--Jazz at Massey Hall. Not only was it a gem because of the dream ...
Unpacking My Bird... A Discovery Most Joyful!
by Raul d'Gama Rose
It is about thirty short strides, from my office in the cellar of my home, to a storeroom, where I keep the boxes-full of CDs that have remained unpacked since I have moved into this town home. But today will be different. I have something more to look forward to. Something I have waited a long ...
Jane Bunnett: The Spirit's Dancing in the Flesh!
by Raul d'Gama Rose
"The ant's a centaur in his dragon's world.Pull down thy vanity, it is not manMade courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down.Learn of the green world what can be thy placeIn scaled invention or ...
The Skies Above Us... The Decay Down Below: From Cavafy and Mahler to Mingus, Ornette Coleman and Charlie Haden
by Raul d'Gama Rose
For days, looking at the darkening sky of the Canadian winter, I was preoccupied with the image of this deep-blue canopy as a mirror--a mirror not only to the individual, but also to the collective soul. For days I have wanted to say what I saw, but no words come to mind yet and the ideas ...
Crepuscule with Thelonious
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Four false starts! I feel like the odd one out in a band led by Monk. The only one perhaps who cannot figure out or has not yet learnt one of Thelonious' new songs and we are about to start playing.New music by Thelonious! Oh! Wish that were true! It is November ...
The Unfinished Score
by Raul d'Gama Rose
In the act and art of writing--whether word or music, prose or poetry, a writer is almost completely lost in the creative challenge; the adventure that unfolds as words or notes start to appear on the page or in between the lines and spaces of a score sheet--both of which start off blank--is both exciting and ...
Endless Enigma: The Aesthetic Phenomenon
by Raul d'Gama Rose
There is magic and mystery in the art of making music. The glorious enigma of sounds that arrive at the deepest recesses of the artist's heart to quicken the blood! These notes and those notes pitched -- seemingly from mouthfuls of air, when the artist lets loose his heart-song. The interminable hum of a random melody ...
From Be-Bop To Hip-Hop - The Cry Of Freedom
by Raul d'Gama Rose
In 1986, I was invited to Bombay, India, to cover the Indian jazz festival--Jazz Yatra--literally a “jazz pilgrimage." Restless in a city that had more to offer than I had bargained for and dazzled by the constellation of musicians who had gathered to celebrate the music of freedom I used to wake up early, then make ...
Oregon: The Art Of The Musical Canvas
by Raul d'Gama Rose
It is very rare indeed for the art of the brush on canvas and fingers on musical instruments to inhabit the same time, space and composition. But when it does a lifetime of magical experiences are born and stay with you forever. To do this the artists must make a myriad metaphysical leaps and transmigrations! A ...
