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Anthony Amodeo
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free jazz?
there is a cover charge to just about every show I see
there is a cover charge to just about every show I see
free jazz?
there is a cover charge to just about every show I see
Thanks, I will check it out!Ornette Coleman's 'Free Jazz' is a decent start, being amongst the first of the breed and a brilliant idiomatic exposition of the style.
My experience has often been that guys who can't play bebop or swing, play free jazz. It's like any other form of art: you have to be at least competent, if not incredibly proficient, at the fundamental skills of playing jazz music- know the history, know the styles, learn harmony, etc. Once you know all the rules, it's acceptable and often fun to stretch or break them, and I can appreciate great players who do that (i.e. The Fringe, later Coltrane stuff, etc.). But in my opinion, if you can't play the "real" stuff, then "free jazz" is just a way to stroke your ego while masking your inabilities as a jazz musician.