Ornette Coleman's 1980 attempt to put together an all-white cover band of his own songs in order to create an audience for his music, since white people were more willing to listen to white musicians than black musicians is interesting, odd, and a little sad.
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Sun Ra's business card. It's a good question.
Another great one is gone.
The great saxophonist David S. Ware has passed at the age of 62. I knew he had been sick for a long time. He received a kidney transplant 2 years ago, donated by a fan, which goes to show the devotion of the followers of...
The great guitarist for Miles Davis' mid-70s bands has passed. Very sad. [SL]: A backhanded tribute to a great innovator: "Howlin' Wolf looked at me and he said 'Why don't.
It's not like we don't already know that the legendary jazz bassist Ron Carter is amazing. But he's also super cool for playing a big role in the American Federation.
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...
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.