Kent Williams <kent@inav.net> lamented:
quoted 7 lines Fuck yeah! I know it takes a lot to get MP away from the television>Fuck yeah! I know it takes a lot to get MP away from the television
>in the evenings, but he should send O a tape of his mix, and see if
>he wants to get together. If Richard James can get to Philip Glass
>that way, what's to stop him.
>
>Actually I don't think Ornette Coleman even has a record deal right now.
>Sad, because everything he does is in my opinion golden.
actually, ornette has his own _label_ right now; a subsidiary of verve
called, appropriately, harmolodic. he still plays and records regularly
with his ensemble prime time, and his most recent album with them, "tone
dialing," came out last year. his son, denardo (who first appeared on
ornette's mid-'70s album, "the empty foxhole," at the age of, like, nine)
does percussion and some drum loops on the album, and it's the most
uncompromising fusion of experimental jazz (or _any_ typa jazz, for that
matter) and hip-hop i've ever heard. don't even think jazzmatazz 'cuz that
shit is _weak_ in comparison (well, it's weak _anyway_ in my opinion, but
"tone dialing" has some pretty crazy shit on it...)...that in mind, i
wouldn't figure an oc/mp collab. as being too far-fetched...
sc