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Wake me up when it's over.

RIP. We'll never hear the true sound of these formative free jazz giants again. The ones that came up when the Blues was still the Blues. I'm glad we got to hear some of it recently again.

This is a very good post. If the o/p thinks it's smug, maybe he doesn't really want to understand the wholistic nature of Archie Shepp's music. I found it staggering to believe anyone with the kind of list in the o/p, hasn't also heard Archie Shepp yet. Sounds a bit weird and disingenuous to me. How do you discover these greats and somehow bypass Archie Shepp? Free Jazz as first conceived was about 'cultural' dissonance, not just aural dissonance. The part never exceeded the whole.

Exactly.

"at that old camp meetin' at the Y"

Hopefully it falls on Phil Woods.

If you're using the lives of great men and women simply to flex your own intellectual muscles then shame. But if you are flexing your intellectual muscles to further illuminate and make cogent those great lives and intellectual property then more power to you, whatever the context,,,, be it the academy, the street or the bus stop.

I like the one from an earlier Ronnie Scott thread... young boy says to Ronnie.... "I want to be a drummer when I grow up", Ronnie says.... 'c'mon now son.......you can't be both! There's a variation on this.... Guy parks his car in a dark street. When he gets back to his car...... someone has smashed his back window and thrown a set of bagpipes in there.

multivalent ˌmʌltɪˈveɪl(ə)nt/ adjective 1. having or susceptible of many applications, interpretations, meanings, or values. "visually complex and multivalent work"

Is it post-modern because it is no longer in a dialectical relationship with its original context?

The content of the 'this' music as originally conceived was Blackness. Can you get around it?

It's not too hard to find out what reify means. And unless there is a better word to encapsulate what it means, that one will work. I think the academics like to flex their intellectual muscles, just like tenor sax men were wont to do. Coltrane moved from the bar room to the concert hall and he made an album that had meaning for both audiences, and the crossover of the two. Then he made some albums none of em possibly liked much at all

Great read. Legend.

When Lou toured Australia in 74(?), an interviewer asked him if he was still doing Heroin! "No" Lou said, "I haven't touched it in ten years". "I meant the song", the interviewer explained. "Oh" Lou said, "I don't do that anymore either".

This could be a tough one I can definitely confirm it's not Bill Cosby if that's any help?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WmhMKWt8DI

Lou and Bowie. Pretentious.......moi

The Grateful Dead, Fusion and Bill Frisell, not necessarily in that order.

Miles let it be known what he thought of the Prime Time alumni, and supposedly was reluctant to play any festivals that featured them. Meanwhile he luxuriated in Sco, Mo larry curly and any other post Hendrix fusion shufflers. Probably reached it's nadir with the feeble Robben Ford getting a guernsey.

And no Grant Green as leader or sideman in these first fifty? Conspicuous by his absence this time around. Just release the unreleased sessions Japan. Just like ya did in the old days. God bless ya's! Those scoundrels Music Matters will never do it.

It doesn't get much more 'organic' than this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vxc8rlM0EI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppWazrhkNYA

Thanks for the life changing music. And the beautiful melodies too.

Boundaries deserve transcending.