Jazz
The great mistake we make as listeners or viewers is passivity. Music deserves and needs our active involvement.
Gunther Schuller dove into jazz with passionate hunger, in the process dispelling cultural, class, and racial prejudices.
The profound impact of Ornette Coleman can be seen in the reactions of the music world to his passing.
Ornette Coleman’s music was avant-garde but, perhaps unconsciously, his notion of art as free lyrical adventure was deeply American.
What we know of mass-market choice suggests that the more choices a person has, the more likely it is that the person will be dissatisfied with any one choice.
Bill Frisell and his quartet performed a program of well-worn American hits whose juxtapositions allowed you to make your own cross-references and draw your own conclusions.
Get your maps and open up your calendar app—it’s time to plan your summer of jazz in New England.
Much more work could be done fertilizing the fields of cross-cultural music, sowing seeds collected from the great touchstones of American culture – innovation, integration, risk, reward.
I’ve never seen Kurt Elling when he wasn’t in fine voice, and this show was no exception.
Arts Fuse Appreciation: Ornette Coleman’s Horn of Plenty
So there was the Ornette Coleman Quartet, leading off the final side of vinyl with a cut that changed my life, “Lonely Woman.”
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