'Entropy' ...Bird Lives [or, rather, Ornette lives]

[prozak at anus.com]

> >From _Ornette Coleman:  A Harmolodic Life_ by John Litweiler (Da Capo,
> 1994), regarding the sessions for _Something Else! . . ._ which
> occurred during February and March 1958:
> 
> On the recording, then, pianist Norris attends to the chord changes
> that Ornette and the group selected; in solo, however, [trumpet player
> Don] Cherry and Ornette and the group can escape the changes to play
> freely.  (Bobby Bradford comments, "I remember Walter Norris saying to
> me, 'Ornette doesn't seem to know his own tunes.'  What he meant was 
> that HE got all the correct changes, but Ornette's horn didn't fit the
> changes."  Ornette told [Nat] Hentoff, "I would prefer it if musicians
> played my my tunes with different changes as they take a new chorus so
> that there'd be all the more varietyin the performances . . ."  Hearing
> Ornette's subsequent recordings, it becomes clear that the piano is an
> inhibiting factor in _Something Else!_  There are passages in "Jayne,"
> "The Sphinx," and three blues solos in which Ornette's alto lines move
> freely amid the rhythm section's bop. [p. 57]

And Ornette seems quite influenced by counterpoint or ultra-
structuralist music. Hmm.

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