Monday, 4/11/11

energy + delicacy = kinetic beauty

Rashied Ali, drums
Don Cherry, pocket trumpet
James Blood Ulmer, guitar

Live (TV broadcast, Sweden), 1978

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More Don Cherry? Here.

I interviewed Rashied in 2008 just before he died, and he showed me this clip on his Mac. He was psyched that it was up on YouTube.

—YouTube comment

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lagniappe

art beat

Paul Cezanne, Study of Trees (c. 1904)
Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts