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Follow Your Leaders? Revisionist Jazz @ The Lincoln Centre

Posted on March 30, 2020March 31, 2020 by jki123 in Jazz, Music Education

A couple of years back, while on holiday in NYC with the fam, I went to see the Willie Jones III Quintet in The Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola at the Lincoln Centre. The Dave Holland Trio (w/ Kevin Eubanks) were at the Village Vanguard downtown on the same evening but they don’t let kids in, at Dizzy’s you can be over 7 years old and they’ll take your money. Continue reading “Follow Your Leaders? Revisionist Jazz @ The Lincoln Centre” →

Poem For O.C.

Posted on March 29, 2020March 29, 2020 by jki123 in Jazz

I first became a fan of Ornette Coleman back in the early 1980s, when I took out At The Golden Circle Vol. 1 on vinyl from the local library.

What appealed to my cold and detached teenage soul was the Blue Note-designed LP cover. The icy backdrop, the too-cool-for-jazz-school threesome, the black & white of it all.

Magick. Continue reading “Poem For O.C.” →