Ornette Coleman
Oz Fritz has just done a nice tribute to Ornette Coleman, the legendary boundary-pushing jazzman who died on June 11.
Which leads me to pose a question: Can anyone give some information about the jazz artists that RAW enjoyed? I know he liked jazz, as any intelligent young person in the 1950s would, and that one of the artists he liked was the Modern Jazz Quartet.
Yet I don't know much about this aspect of his life. His literary tastes are pretty well documented (look for example at the bottom of this link) , we have a lot of information on what movies he liked, and we know that he loved Beethoven, Mozart, Bach and Mahler, yet I know little about which jazz musicians he listened to. Can anyone help?
4 comments:
To judge from the jazz haikus in Coincidance, he likes Coltrane, Louis Armstrong, and (as you mentioned) the Modern Jazz Quartet.
I think Bob listened to less jazz as he got older. He does mention dreaming of Monk in _TSOG_.
Thanks, Tom! I don't know much about RAW's preferences in jazz.
The earrings the woman in the photo of Ornette's album in my blog reminded me of the spiral ring RAW often wore.
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