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...both the successes and failures of the music that has been labelled avant-garde jazz. The four featured musicians represent a fair selection of the music's most important figures. Ornette Coleman (alto saxophone) and Cecil Taylor (piano) were among the first of avant-garde's proponents. Albert Ayler (tenor sax) was an influential force in the music throughout the '60s and Marion Brown (tenor sax) is a late-blossomer. The records display the new expressive powers that the music's structural freedom allows: they also show the chaos that can result when inspiration falters and there is no strucural...
Albert Ayler founds his approach to jazz on a search for simplicity. His music reaches back into the origins of jazz for its most basic, primal elements. He rejects the modern sophistication of chordal structures to construct a new blues form. Ayler digs deep into the tenor saxophone's gutteral voice to produce a sound that is harsh, unsubtle and unpolished. He plays in a strong, brutal manner; he bends, bashes and torments notes until they express what he desires. Usually building around a simple recognizable theme, Ayler relies on a rawness of emotion unfiltered through traditional structure that seems...
Next doer, at Paul's Mail, tenor man Sonny Rollins will be playing at 8:30, 10:30 and 12:30. Rollins is the great myth of jazz. Even though he has not budged an inch from his already well-worn style of the early 60's, he is still one of the most revered musicans around His latest stuff is real disappointment for those who remember when he and Coltrane were vying for most innovative tenor. Shows no signs of coming around...
...assembly-line workers in On the Line--a black tenor with operatic ambitions, a shrunken Polish immigrant who dreams of buying his son a car for his high school graduation, foreman unable to cope with the car-smashing tough-punk rage of an Italian boy put on an impossible schedule by a time-study engineer--find little satisfaction in the labor they perform. But out of their relationships to one another at union picnics as well as in the plant, Swados's people make their mechanized factory into a human place. And though each of them is unique, there...
Monkey Business. It's gotten so that I don't like to watch the Marx Brothers M-G-M extravaganzas anymore, with their water-ballets and cupie-doll tenor heroes thrown in among the more or less emasculated brothers. So Monkey Business from the tacky Paramount days comes as blessed relief, reaffirmation and so on. It is wonderful. This is the one where Groucho, Chico and most importantly Harpo all do imitations of Maurice Chevalier singing "Eef a Nightengale Cood Sin Lak You" and where Grouch announces that "love goes out the door when money comes innuendo". The script...