Re: looking for: OMAR

pyramus@wavenet.com
Sat, 8 Jun 1996 00:57:07 +0100

> when ornette coleman 1st started performing "free jazz", he was going back to
> the roots of jazz. in dixieland, they all came up w/their own
> countermelodies spontaneously. all ornette was doing was throwing out the
> predetermined harmony (chords) and keeping the simultaneous (counter)melodies.
> it's just part of the tradition.
>
> t-bird

True. And IMHO it takes the best, and *only* the best players, to succesfully
play "free" jazz in a group/combo style; because jazz is, again, IMHO, about
*listening* to what each other is doing, and augmenting each other's parts
so that the whole is greater than the individual sound.

This is what can be so great about some of Ornette's stuff, or BITCHES BREW
by Miles. Because these musicians weren't afraid to leave "space."
Whereas later free jazz became simply about who could outblow one another,
and who could showcase the most technique. And too many bad players started
trying to play it.

$.02

Mike

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