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Newswatch (Ran Blake); Congeniality (Ornette Coleman); Clear Water (Albert Ayler); 40-F (Anthony Braxton); Egyptian (Carla Bley); ? (Alice Coltrane); Well You Needn't (Monk).
The above set list indicates the mood of the evening, an evening based around the music of those musicians who sought to furrow new paths, moving away from tradition into a brave new world, finding new disciples and discarding unbelievers just as every innovator has done since the earliest days of jazz to the present day.
Pope and Garner are two players very much au fait with the idiom and they offered an interesting take that went down well with the viewers who virtually screamed for an encore to which our two Johns obliged in the form of Monk's Well You Needn't. Jazz Co-op's Dave Parker posted, "Monk would have loved that" - maybe!
Nevertheless, it was good to see two musicians of such standing, reaching out beyond the norm.
Lance
1 comment :
Thanks for the review! Just to clarify - ‘Newswatch’ is credited to Jeanne Lee, and ‘Clear Water’ to Mary Parks.
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