Amen, and nothing more needs to be averred about the importance of
training, beginning in the very early years, in solfege, movement,
and playing of instruments as we find in Kodaly and Orff. That's the
sort of background which not only produces exceptional musicianship
on a broad level, but just plain well-rounded human beings. Trust me,
the world would be a far better place, if only ............
Dean
P.s., btw, Don Ellis's playing seemed seamless to me, regardless of
the intricate metrical underpinning (which, I suspect, was his
primary intent).
On May 3, 2007, at 12:46 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:
On 3-May-07, at 11:14 AM, Dean M. Estabrook wrote:
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 .....
Most of what I saw of his had denominators like 8 and 16, denoting
changing groups of subdivisions, rather than simply changing
numbers of pulses.
Funny that some of his work, which sounded so out there at the
time, sounds rather ordinary today! This is not a criticism or a
comment on lack of sophistication, but only an observation of how
comfortably he was able to groove in those odd metres, and how much
of it is commonplace now.
I had a Romanian student who kept bringing in these jazz pieces in
odd metres, and the students were having trouble reading them. He
shook his head and said every ten year old in Romania can clap
these rhythms, as they were simple folk dances. We stood up and put
our arms across each others' shoulders and learned the dances, and
ten minutes later the students were grooving their butts off! Once
they knew how to dance it, they played it as easily as 4/4.
Christopher
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Of all hoaxes, the one which is my most vexing bête noire on a
quotidian basis, is the cereal box top which informs simply,
"Lift Tab to Open." Then, "To Close, Insert Tab Here ." Yeah,
right! In attempting to accomplish the first direction, not only
the tab but also the slit intended to accept the aforementioned
protuberance have both been irreparably disfigured and rendered
dysfunctional. This debacle is then amplified by the misbehavior
of the recalcitrant inner bag, which can not be unsealed sans
mangling it, and hence, will not disperse its contents without
exiting the box itself. All I wanted was a bowl of cereal.
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