This is brilliant! The word choices are so eloquent and spare, it sometimes reminds me Whitney Bailliett, longtime jazz writer at The New Yorker.
Barrett Deems was a drummer worthy of greater renown. He was, after all, with Armstrong for many years. I heard him often in a quintet that included Truck Parham on bass. He had been with Eldridge during his residency in Chicago before NYC.
If I could, I would sit at the bar only about 10 ft. from Deems’ kit. Could hear the drums resonate—not just the drumheads. He could execute a roll and articulate each note with individual dynamics and rhythmic feel.
Really appreciate your insight about abstract drumming and harmolodics. If everyone knows where the tempo is, no one needs to state the obvious.
Whitney Bailliett imprinted on me when he wrote “Giuseppi Logan masks sly sins”. I’ve always been intrigued by BD, getting such responsibilities with Louis and Roy! Thanks for reading!
Music can only be truly appreciated by experiencing it live, especially jazz. I realize it’s not for everyone, but everyone should at least give it a go once! I love telling the story when Olga & I first got together she said none of the “dying elephant music” when I’m home! A few years later we were up here and the Art Ensemble was playing at Bryn Mawr College. After that show, Olga got “ears”! Seeing the musicians putting body & soul into their compositions is a whole other level. Any sentient person can get with that! ✌️
Lol! I get it, and it takes a minute to get through the at times raw humanity, and emotions in music that are more about at times difficult honesty or even trauma. The truth is a lot of free jazz is self-therapy or someone trying to figure out their relationship with life, even God in real time. It can also just be about the futile nature to figure it out and ask what life is rather than trust the ride. Some folks need melody and groove, why O and S light up on Hymn for Ashe (=
Looking forward to the disc! Great band...
Big Love
This is brilliant! The word choices are so eloquent and spare, it sometimes reminds me Whitney Bailliett, longtime jazz writer at The New Yorker.
Barrett Deems was a drummer worthy of greater renown. He was, after all, with Armstrong for many years. I heard him often in a quintet that included Truck Parham on bass. He had been with Eldridge during his residency in Chicago before NYC.
If I could, I would sit at the bar only about 10 ft. from Deems’ kit. Could hear the drums resonate—not just the drumheads. He could execute a roll and articulate each note with individual dynamics and rhythmic feel.
Really appreciate your insight about abstract drumming and harmolodics. If everyone knows where the tempo is, no one needs to state the obvious.
Thanks Mark!
Whitney Bailliett imprinted on me when he wrote “Giuseppi Logan masks sly sins”. I’ve always been intrigued by BD, getting such responsibilities with Louis and Roy! Thanks for reading!
This is stream of consciousness at its finest! You start and the ride gets wild instantly! The moral of the story is: listen!
Thanks Dr.K, this is really a unique one and will have physical copies with art and liner notes only with the physical copy👊
Thanks for going full Airlift🫡
I believe music should get the listener to see things, and that’s what I saw. I used to that at live shows especially, have a list somewhere
Music can only be truly appreciated by experiencing it live, especially jazz. I realize it’s not for everyone, but everyone should at least give it a go once! I love telling the story when Olga & I first got together she said none of the “dying elephant music” when I’m home! A few years later we were up here and the Art Ensemble was playing at Bryn Mawr College. After that show, Olga got “ears”! Seeing the musicians putting body & soul into their compositions is a whole other level. Any sentient person can get with that! ✌️
Lol! I get it, and it takes a minute to get through the at times raw humanity, and emotions in music that are more about at times difficult honesty or even trauma. The truth is a lot of free jazz is self-therapy or someone trying to figure out their relationship with life, even God in real time. It can also just be about the futile nature to figure it out and ask what life is rather than trust the ride. Some folks need melody and groove, why O and S light up on Hymn for Ashe (=