I had an interesting twitter exchange (@ErikLoomis) today with Andy Bowen (@andymbowen) about John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman. I was listening to Ornette's "The Shape of Jazz to Come" this morning and we started chatting and a really good question came up. Why exactly is...
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Will Layman offers a lovely remembrance of the late, great Paul Motian, whose passing we have talked about here a couple of times. A couple of months ago, I found.
The jazz world and the drumming world weeps tonight.
I've been making it through the many Looney Tunes collections over the past couple of years. Last night, I watched "I Love to Singa" for the first time in a very long time: This play on The Jazz Singer is fantastic from the modern perspective...
I was lucky enough to see Ornette Coleman at Town Hall last Friday, and as expected it was exceptional. It was remarkable at the begining to compare his frail, barely.