Let’s Move on to Jazz

 

In keeping with the Black History Month theme...Jazz.

 

Jazz originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues & ragtime.

 

As I like my reggae Dubbed & my funk(psych)Adelic, I like my jazz Free. Free your jazz & your mind will follow.

 

Jazz was always a break-through for improvisation in music & thus created freedom. Yet jazz was mired deeply in a swamp of strict structures. Free jazz broke free from that morass into an open space of  "free tonality" in which meter, beat, & formal symmetry no longer applied.

 

The first major stirrings came in the 1950s with the early work of Ornette Coleman (whose 1960 album Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation coined the term).

 

So in honor of breaking free from formal symmetry, I'll both start & end this chapter with the O.C...Sir Ornette Coleman.

Ornette Coleman Quartet - The Unprecedented Music of Ornette Coleman, 

Lotus LOP 14.074, 1980.
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Lato 1 -
Lonely Woman
Monsieur le Prince

Lato 2 -
Forgotten Children
Buddah Blues

The Unprecedented Cast: Ornette Coleman - alto saxophone, trumpet, & shanai; Charles Haden  & David Izenzon - bass; & Ed Blackwell - drums. All written by Ornette.

 

Albert Ayler et al. - New York Eye & Ear Control, ESP Disk 1016, 1966.

side A -
Don's Dawn
AY

side B -
ITT

NY E & E Crew: Albert Ayler - tenor saxophone; Don Cherry - trumpet; John Tchicai - alto saxophone; Roswell Rudd - trombone; Gary Peacock - bass; & Sonny Murray - drums.

Another one from ESP 1966...

Charles Tyler Ensemble - Self-titled, ESP Disk 1029, 1966.

side A -
Strange Uhuru
Lacy's Out East

side B -
Three Spirits
Black Mysticism

 

Anthony Braxton - News from the 70s, Felmay fy 7005, 1999.

Composition 23E
Composition 8C
Composition -1
Composition -2
Composition 8G
Four Winds

Ornette Coleman & Prime Time - Opening the Caravan of Dreams, 

Caravan of Dreams Productions CDP85001, 1985.

Side 1 -
To Know What You Know
Harmolodic Bebop
Sex Spy

Side 2 -
City Living
See-Thru
Compute

The Prime Time Crew: Bern Nix & Charles Ellerbee - guitar; Albert MacDowell & Jamaaladeen Tacuma - bass; & Denardo Coleman & Sabir Kamal - drums.

Enjoy,
NØ