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1996-05-10 00:09Sean CooperKent Williams <kent@inav.net> lamented: >Fuck yeah! I know it takes a lot to get MP away f

From:: Sean Cooper <scooper@best.com>
To:: <idm@hyperreal.com>
Date:: Thu, 9 May 1996 17:09:55 -0700
Subject:: (idm) ornette

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

1996-05-10 14:40Kent WilliamsOn Thu, 9 May 1996, Sean Cooper wrote: > actually, ornette has his own _label_ right now;

From:: Kent Williams <kent@inav.net>
To:: intelligent dance <idm@hyperreal.com>
Date:: Fri, 10 May 1996 09:40:58 -0500 (CDT)
Subject:: Re: (idm) ornette
Reply to:: (idm) ornette

On Thu, 9 May 1996, Sean Cooper wrote:

quoted 1 line actually, ornette has his own _label_ right now;

> actually, ornette has his own _label_ right now;

Let me stand corrected, and repeat "Fuck Yeah!"

quoted 3 lines his son, denardo (who first appeared on ornette's mid-'70s album,

> 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 if you EVER see a copy of "The Empty Foxhole" snap it up. It SOUNDS like what it is -- a 9 year old bashing the crap out of a trap set, with his dad sawing at a violin as if it was the first time he ever touched the instrument. But after you hear it 7 or 8 times an amazing beauty begins to show itself like a small boat riding stormy seas. This is one of the original "WHOA!" records. And when you've digested that move onto "Interstellar Space" by John Coltrane and Rashied Ali, which you can listen to a thousand times and NEVER hear everything that's going on. This message has been brought to you by Off Topic Industries -- Quality Digressions, Non Sequitirs, and Interruptions on the Internet for twelve years. --------------------------------------------------------------------- "... when digital distortes it stores a bit on the bottom, breaking the wave. Not that this may actualy mean anything, but staying up late watching old jackie chan movies has a weird effect on a guy" -- Tim Goldman Kent Williams kent@inav.net CADSI 2651 Crosspark Road Coralville IA 52241 (319) 338 6053 (home) (319) 626 6700 x 219 (work) (319) 626 3489 (fax)

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