Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such as Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman sought to move outside the boundaries of traditional musical structure, to ignore the rules of harmony and tonality. Such an innovation also necessitated a change in listening expectations; for those who expected jazz to be tonal and chordal, the new avant-garde style seemed threatening as well as incomprehensible...
Ornette Coleman's approach is a more polished one. In 1964, when this live recording was made, he had already won critical acclaim as a major innovator, and despite his continued interest in experimentation, he style had already jelled. Throughout this concert, Coleman displays an impressive ability to play in a wide variety of styles and moods. On 'Sadness' his tone is delicate, almost moaning, while on 'Ballad,' he strains at the melody as if fervently hoping or wishing. In 'The Happy Fool' and the facetiously titled 'Clergyman's Dream,' Coleman lays out a straight improvisational structure and swings through...
...disappear only to reassert themselves at a later juncture. The music's complexity is stunning; like an intricate web seen from afar, his music seems initially amorphous, but upon closer examination each musical strand and the pattern into which it is woven appears. In many ways Taylor's style is the antithesis of Ayler's in that Taylor is using the new musical freedom to construct a more sophisticated form, rather than a simpler...
Time has been considerably kinder to Comfort's ideas than to Come Out to Play. Its fey style and potty names (Fossil-Fundament, Sir Frank Pus) seem as ephemeral as fruit flies. Worse, Goggins' description of monogamous marriage as the act of buying "meat in unopened cans" is enough to make celibate vegetarianism seem downright appealing.* Paul Gray
True Believer. Hess's nonconformist life-style leaves him plenty of time for thinking and writing. He offers no excuses for his philosophical flipflop, which he sees as a natural response to the growth of big government in America. "It's not just the war," he says. "I'm as opposed to the welfare state as I am to the warfare state. The Government is doing everything that the Declaration of Independence said you should resist," he says. Like the British, the Government "is sending hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their...