robertoart

First ball in under half an hour. England won toss and batting. Selection surprises all around. Test Match Special team on the Radio right now. Geez I love The Ashes. Dulcet tones of Elgar just trailing off into the distance.

I want to register a formal complaint about these bloody birthday threads

That's a funky little ensemble. They should be given honourable discharges immediately, and start posting here.

Indeed, I accept what you're saying. But is the Harmolodic aspect really more about the interaction and rhythmic displacement of the ensemble, rather than the triadic harmony basis of the individual lines or melody. The so called Harmolodic bands announced a difference from the previous Ornette bands. The whole approach and instrumentation is something else to the Science Fiction School Days era that proceeded it. And it's easier for 'straight heads' to approach that music accordingly (a pinnacle of creative music though it is). The thing that changed from the 'classic' quartet and the expanded horn ensembles was that with the introduction of the guitars and double drums and bass the collapsing cacophony effect became more pronounced. It's more than the effect of just being a bit noisy. It's an ensemble sound that alienates before it reconstructs in your head as disparate melody/cry of Jazz-Blues integrity. It's just as viable and confronting as Miles Agartha/Dark Magus period, although from another angle. The way this music cross-polinated with the No-Wave New-Wave Post-Punk scene (inauthentically actually), has done it a disservice historically I think.

It's certainly not George Costanza's.

Really? It's definitely rooted in The Blues and collective improvisation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0HB8ybKJzo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsT5J6TJIkk

Nix calls the party a meeting of “Harmolodics Anonymous.” His joke is that once exposed and enlisted in Ornette’s point of view, musicians often find themselves commercial outcasts. It’s really that they’ve become so open to the basics of sound that they have little patience for conforming to state conventions. Harmolodics is a conflation of harmony, motion and melody into a mutually reinforcing system that justifies and resolves collective improvisation while upending traditional Western music precepts. Many well-educated musicians can’t get with harmolodics at all. Crouch was sitting on the couch

In my life........I love Coltrane more But I still haven't completed my first pressing UK vinyl Beatles collection yet

It could be Shorter's hands. Or the dreaded 'hand model'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdD1IOO0gJQ

Yeah. They wind up and chuck. It's just not cricket http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZKvJY6gDfg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPSYxrt6F9Q

Hey you all guys there... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsKo_LtShsw