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The Ornette Coleman Quartet: Ornette!
by Chris M. Slawecki
Saxophonist Coleman recorded Ornette! about a month after his milestone Free Jazz sessions, retaining bassist Scott LaFaro, drummer Ed Blackwell, and the amazing Don Cherry on pocket trumpet. Four tracks, each titled with an acronym, from the original 1962 release are supplemented by a fifth, “Proof Readers,” for this reissue. Ornette! uniquely blends musical ...
Ornette Coleman Quartet
by AAJ Staff
Hill Auditorium Ann Arbor, MI March 19, 2004 Ornette Coleman’s acoustic jazz presentation was functional simplicity -- two basses and drum set creating a tapestry of sound that he’d play endless melodies upon. The ensemble which performed an uninterrupted (no intermission) 10 piece and single encore set Friday evening had the poise ...
Charlie Haden: An Analog Guy in a Digital World
by Clifford Allen
Born August 6, 1937 in Shenandoah, Iowa, Charlie Haden came up in a musical family. After moving around the Midwest, he eventually settled in Los Angeles playing bass with Hampton Hawes, Elmo Hope, and Paul Bley. A fateful meeting in 1958 with Ornette Coleman netted Haden one of his most infamous gigs, which continued with brief ...
Ornette Coleman is Still the Future of Jazz
by AAJ Staff
Most of us would agree that Ornette Coleman is an important musician, a significant innovator as a saxophonist and a composer. I want to open a forum to re-evaluate Coleman in that I think he is the most significant force in jazz since Charlie Parker, and the fact that Coleman's innovations are widely misunderstood gets in ...
A Casual Stroll Down The Free Jazz / Avant Garde Avenue
by AAJ Staff
Since most of the readers of this column who write to me seem to be rather at home with the Swing and Be Bop or Hard Bop and Cool Jazz eras, I have been meaning to write a piece on Free Jazz and its slightly sterner-miened cousin Avant-Garde. There can be hardly a doubt that reactions ...
Ginsberg's 'America' and Jazz
by AAJ Staff
Current events, such as they are, prompted me to go back and re-read Allen Ginsberg's poem “ America ." There is much good literature on the relation between the Beat movement and jazz, I'll not try and revisit that topic here. I will however dwell on one characteristic all great jazz players' posses and which this ...
Frank Lowe Quartet: Lowe-Down and Blue
by Derek Taylor
Certain musicians wear their humanity on their sleeves. It bleeds out in their music, whether the facility and prowess is there or not. Frank Lowe falls easily into this camp. The years have not been kind to him, and from a purely technical standpoint his chops have noticeably eroded under the stress. But in creative music, ...
At the Golden Circle Vol. 1 & Vol. 2
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Volume 1: Announcement; Faces And Places; European Echoes; Dee Dee; Dawn; Faces And Places (alternate take); European Echoes (alternate take); Doughnuts (previously unissued). Volume 2: Snowflakes And Sunshine; Morning Song; The Riddle; Antiques; Morning Song (alternate take); The Riddle (alternate take); Antiques (alternate take).
Badal Roy / Perry Robinson / Ed Schuller: Raga Roni
by AAJ Staff
When jazz listeners think of the tablas, only a few players immediately come to mind--Badal Roy, Zakir Hussain, and possibly the late Collin Walcott (from the group Oregon). Of them, Roy's resumé within jazz circles is certainly the most significant, with timeless contributions to the groups and recordings of Miles Davis (e.g. On The Corner, Big ...
Branford & Ellis Marsalis: The Dawn of Marsalis Music
by Mark Corroto
The first family of jazz, the Marsalis of New Orleans, have seemingly been in the eye of a musical hurricane for the past twenty years. With the news that Saxophonist Branford Marsalis and his father Ellis Marsalis had severed their ties with Sony music, comes the announcement that they have formed the independent label Marsalis Music. ...
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