[Dixielandjazz] FREE JAZZ AND ?

[Stephen G Barbone]

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> "ROBERT R. CALDER" <serapion at btinternet.com> wrote (polite snip)
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> I suppose one of the occasions of "Free Jazz" starting up was the  
> horrendous attenuation of notions of jazz from which everybody  
> suffers, the legend that there once was dixieland and then there was  
> bop, and that that was that until the era of Trane clones...
> And what was supposedly new was yet another of an astonishing number  
> of failures to reinvent the wheel...
> More seriously:
> What about Don Ellis's comment on Henry Allen as the most avant- 
> garde trumpeter in New York? . . .?? and Bill Russell's analyses of  
> Jim Robinson's rhythms....

Well said Robert.

And what about Gerry Mulligan's comment?: Pee Wee Russell is more  
harmonically advanced than I am. I've heard it said that, for example,  
Pee Wee would intentionally play tunes that the band was playing in  
Bb, in C so as to emphasize the 9ths, 11ths and 13ths, etc. <grin>

Jazz coexists.

What about "fusion" with a together band? Try this from Brecker  
Brothers in Barcelona. CAVEAT: Not for the faint of heart, but there  
is some polyphony here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIGsSLCoIhM&feature=related

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband