Black Music
Imamu Amiri Baraka
Language: English
Pages: 221
ISBN: 0688243444
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
First demonstrated on Coltrane Jazz and brought to such good account on My Favorite Things taken even further. At times one is not certain which of the notes he’s hearing is, in fact, the real note, or which line the real line, i.e., the one that would be called for on a chart. Also, the rest of the group, especially Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner, can scare you to death. There seems no doubt in my mind now that John Coltrane is the most impressive voice on the tenor saxophone of our times. And I.
I have said, the strongest of these roots are blues and what was called bebop. They sit autonomous. Blues and bebop are musics. They are understandable, emotionally, as they sit: without the barest discussion of their origins. And the reason I think for this is that they are origins, themselves. Blues is a beginning. Bebop, a beginning. They define other varieties of music that come after them. If a man had not heard blues, there is no reason to assume that he would be even slightly interested.
I have said, the strongest of these roots are blues and what was called bebop. They sit autonomous. Blues and bebop are musics. They are understandable, emotionally, as they sit: without the barest discussion of their origins. And the reason I think for this is that they are origins, themselves. Blues is a beginning. Bebop, a beginning. They define other varieties of music that come after them. If a man had not heard blues, there is no reason to assume that he would be even slightly interested.
Get to work either.) REEDS: Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Wayne Shorter, Oliver Nelson, Archie Shepp. BRASS: Don Cherry, Freddie Hubbard. PERCUSSION: Billy Higgins, Ed Blackwell, Dennis Charles (drums); Earl Griffith (vibraharp). BASS: Wilbur Ware, Charlie Haden, Scott LaFaro, Buell Neidlinger, others. PIANO: Cecil Taylor. COMPOSITION: Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Wayne Shorter, Cecil Taylor.* These are most of the people this essay intends to hamper with the nom de guerre.
Sound space. Sun-Ra’s music in this term presumes it exists everywhere. All Nature. And is not merely the calm artifact lost in a world of silence. The popular song is clearly discernable as a thing in the world. Its limits are blatantly finite. Sun-Ra’s music creates the arbitrary sounds of the natural world. Sun-Ra’s Arkestra is really a black family. The leader keeps fourteen or fifteen musicians playing with him who are convinced that music is a priestly concern and a vitally significant.