On 3-May-07, at 2:31 PM, dhbailey wrote:
Darcy James Argue wrote:
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.
I didn't like Cherry's trumpet playing from a technical point of
view, but he WAS able to communicate as a musician. Check out
Ornette's first album, "The Shape Of Jazz To Come", and tell me that
"Lonely Woman" isn't a passionate, expressive work.
Jimmy Guiffre wasn't a stellar clarinetist, either, but my jaw
dropped when I heard a duo album he recorded with Paul Bley (the
title escapes me now). Gorgeous, concise, fantastically-constructed
improvisations without the tons of notes that usually characterise
modern improvisations, that made you completely forget the weedy
little sound he had.
Both of them fantastic musicians, not the greatest technicians. I
wouldn't dismiss either of them.
Christopher
_______________________________________________
Finale mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
