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Tarbuster
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May 27, 2017 - 06:11am PT
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Ornette Coleman playing his tune, Tears Inside:
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Coleman lived to be 85.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornette_Coleman
Tears Inside, Pat Metheny's rendition:
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Back in the 80s during my guiding days in Idyllwild, I had been teaching knots and fundamentals throughout the week, and on Friday night, while all the other climbers were heading into town for their weekend of climbing, Terry Martin and I hopped into my Lancia for a spirited drive down into Los Angeles to see Ornette Coleman.
What a blast! Ornette had two bass players and two drummers. They proceeded to cook up a free jazz wall of sound. It was like the aural version of a Jackson Pollock painting.
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The cover of Metheny's album, Rejoicing, looks like the abstract Expressionism of CY Twombly. Credit for the cover design goes to Barbara Wojirsch.
Think of Your Eyes as Ears, an interesting read on ECM cover art and Barbara Wojirsch:
http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/think-of-your-ears-as-eyes
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