There was a period of about five years where I was listening to a lot of early free jazz— Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp. Ornette (and his circle) is the only one […]
Category: Milford Graves
Sunny Murray, the bebop tradition, and Milford Graves
“Take it easy, now… there’s no work in this shit, they’re gonna jump on your ass…” — Sunny Murray to a young, interested, Hans Bennink Here’s an interview by Dan Warburton, with one of the […]
DBMITW: Ed Blackwell, more Milford
I’ve got several wordy pieces kicking around the drafts folder right now, but I’m working on the 2012 Book of the Blog today, so it’ll be a minute before you see them. In the mean […]
Milford Graves
Hey, there’s more of pioneering free jazz drummer Milford Graves up on YouTube than there used to be. I think he’s my favorite of the early way free guys, and I wish he was on […]
A treasure trove: WKCR Soundscape project
I just googled this up, from the WKCR 89.9 New York radio site: a duo performance by Ed Blackwell and saxophonist Charles Brackeen, recorded in 1980 at: Soundscape[,] a New York performance venue founded and […]