[Dixielandjazz] Free Jazz and its New Orleans Jazz Roots

[Marek Boym]

Many years ago someone wrote to the Down Beat magazine (quoting from
memory): "Free jazz?  Avant garde?  We played like that 30 years ago,
but then wa called it "warming up!'"

That's how it sounds to me to these days.
Cheers

On 09/11/2009, Bill Haesler <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> Stephen G Barbone wrote:
> > For those who think free jazz came out of nowhere, check this Mp3 out. it
> is a snip from Air Lore's version of King Porter's Stomp, circa 1977 or so.
> It features the avant garde trio of Henry Threadgill on sax, Steve McCall on
> drums and Fred Hopkins.
> > CAVEAT: Not for the faint of heart, but it is for the adventurous, a kicky
> sound and a reminder that all jazz goes back, in some fashion, to the roots.
> >
> http://thebadplus.typepad.com/files/king_porter_excerpt.mp3
> >
>
> Dear Steve,
> That one didn't upset my faint heart.
> Nor my mouldy fig ears.
> But, "a reminder that all jazz goes back, in some fashion, to the roots"?
> Hardly.
> "King Porter Stomp" for most 'jazz' musicians would only go as far back as
> the Swing era and Fletcher Henderson's 1935 arrangement for Benny Goodman
> and His Orchestra.
> Ask almost any jazz person who composed it and when and they would be quite
> surprised to hear that it was Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton in 1902.
> Present company excepted - of course.
> <grin>
> Kind regards,
> Bill
>
>
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