voices I miss
Here, three weeks before dying from lung cancer, he’s bursting with life.
Leroy Jenkins (1932-2007, violin), live (Dewey Redman Memorial), New York, 2/4/07
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Nothing in the cry
of cicadas suggests they
are about to die—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), translated from the Japanese by Sam Hamill
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Heaven: hearing, together, a favorite drummer and a favorite bassist.
Ed Blackwell (drums, 1929-1992) with Malachi Favors (bass, 1927-2004) and Dewey Redman (tenor saxophone, 1931-2006), “Paris? Oui” (Tarik), 1969
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
No background. No foreground. Three lines, intertwining.
Dewey Redman (1931-2006), tenor saxphone; Malachi Favors (1927-2004), bass; Ed Blackwell (1929-1992), drums; “Paris? Oui!,” 1969
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art beat
Bruce Davidson (1933-), Duffy Circus, Ireland, 1967
passings
Charlie Haden, bassist, composer, bandleader, August 6, 1937-July 11, 2014
Old and New Dreams (Charlie Haden, bass; Ed Blackwell, drums; Dewey Redman, tenor saxophone; Don Cherry, pocket trumpet), “Happy House” (O. Coleman), live, Norway (Molde Jazz Festival), 1979
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radio
Thank God, once again, for college radio. Beginning tomorrow at 2 p.m. (EST), WKCR (Columbia University) will air a memorial broadcast. Two hours? Three? Nope. They’ll be playing Haden’s music, continuously, until 9 p.m.—Monday.
My favorite drummer?
There are days I’d say this is the guy.
Among the many things I love about his playing, which dances, always, is the balance of simplicity and complexity—it’s never more complex than it is simple, never simpler than it is complex.
Old and New Dreams (Don Cherry [1936-1995], pocket trumpet; Dewey Redman [1931-2006], tenor saxophone; Charlie Haden [1937-], bass; Ed Blackwell [1929-1992], drums), live
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Art is not in some far-off place.
—Lydia Davis, “Extracts from a Life” (The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, 2009)
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