Greetings,
In the latest issue of Perfect Sound Forever
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ERIC DOLPHY
God bless the child
"Eric came to prominence during a transitional period in jazz. In the
evolution of the alto saxophone, his horn bridged the gap between
Charlie Parker and Ornette Coleman and helped usher be bop into the
uncharted realm of the avant-garde or the "New Thing." His unique
sense of harmony and jagged melody lines had more in common with the
fractured piano of Thelonious Monk than any horn player of his time.
His lyrical leaps from one register to the next spanned a broad range
of emotion and expression that few musicians then or now have been
capable of. Dolphy's vocabulary ranged from a gentle whisper to a
full-blown anxiety attack. Like Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, Eric also
battled the grim existential atmosphere of cold war era with an
irrepressible howl."
BILL HARRINGTON
From Prog to Cage & Beyond
"A lot of musicians naturally, when the time came to eke out one's
existence away from the primordial nest, gravitated to employment in
record shops. Harrington somewhat followed suit but opted for the
wholesaler's side, spending a couple of years in the middle morass of
the industry, a prime spot for amassing an impressive collection of
recordings of electronic and avant-garde musics. This and his
schooling, not to mention natural talent, led to starting up as
keyboard tech for such groups as the immortal Gentle Giant... So
where to go from there? King Crimson? Genesis? Premiata Forneria
Marconi? How about Frank Zappa? Interestingly enough, Harrington
somehow came to the attention not of Zappa but of one of his keyboard
players, Tommy Mars."
CHRIS MCGREGOR
Capetown jazz
" McGregor died of lung cancer in May of 1990, aged 54, living just
long enough to see his countryman Nelson Mandela freed from prison.
McGregor, a white pianist/flutist/composer and his black band mates
had left South Africa more than twenty-five years before, when
finding work for a mixed-race band became impossible under apartheid
(the legendary London jazz impresario Ronnie Scott says in his
introduction of the band on Eclipse at Dawn, "South Africa is a
wonderful place... to come from")."
We're always looking for good writers and/or ideas so let us know if
you have anything to share.
See you online,
Jason
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