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Monday, April 25, 2005

Plethora of information
Two main things I feel like touching on in this particular installment.

First off, I went to see Ornette Coleman at Ted Mann as part of a festival celebrating his 75th birthday. AMAZING show. Great set, he even played "Lonely Woman" as his encore, which was gorgeous. Jeremy, Marsha, and I were all talking after the show and discussed the misconceptions of his music. People seem to think his music, or hell, jazz in general, are these massively intimidating genres bases upon getting as far out as possible. Ornette, he's out in a few ways, form seeming the most prevolent, but if you just listen to him, or jazz in general....really listen, all it is is the blues. Even Ornette or late Coltrane....its the blues. Some of the most soulful blues I've heard in a long time came last Friday night from Ornette's horn. He's from Texas, there's no way he's not gonna have the blues in him. The sound was shit, the drummer, horrible....but Ornette got up there with his little horn and understated character and blew the shit out of that horn. He cut through everyone else, at 75. Ornette is the first jazz legend of the old age that I've seen. I don't count Herbie Hancock because he was right on that edge between jazz and fusion. Ornette is the first and last jazz musician from the old school that I'll see that started a genre and made it his.

It was amazing to hear his blues blow the crap out of the rest of the band. No matter what kind of weird shit the rest of the band was playing....how "out" they were trying to be, he'd just get up there and blow the blues. No filter. Not meaning to sound pretentious, but the rest of the crowd was sitting there, being as "out" as they could....the only solos of Ornette's they clapped at were his violin solos, not his incoprehensibly bluesy sax solos....Jeremy and I just kind of looked around and shook our heads.


On the other jazz note (haha, so funny) I watched " 'Round Midnight" the other night. A brief description: movie in which Dexter Gordon's character (Dale Turner) leaves New York for Paris and is slowly nursed back to health by an adoring fan. Wonderful movie. I thought Dexter was going to suck as an actor, but did an amazing job in portraying this old sax player in failing health and failing chops. Viewing of this movie is highly reccomended.


This Thursday is Ted Nash w/ the JIN Orchestra at the Dakota. It promises to be an incredible show.

P.S. - Go HERE for pictures from my Colorado Excursion a while ago and pictures from prom night '05 and Kara's b-day present.

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