Showing posts with label Ornette Coleman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ornette Coleman. Show all posts
Don Cherry Quotes
"The day I met Ornette [Coleman], it was about 90 degrees and he had on an overcoat. I was scared of him." - Don Cherry
Thelonious Monk Quotes
"At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under pretext of freeing yourself, to be illogical and incoherent by getting rid of structure and simply piling a lot of notes one on top of the other. There's no beat anymore. You can't keep time with your foot. I believe that what is happening to jazz with people like Ornette Coleman, for instance, is bad. There's a new idea that consists in destroying everything and find what's shocking and unexpected; whereas jazz must first of all tell a story that anyone can understand." - Thelonious Monk
Freddie Hubbard Quotes
"I had heard Ornette a couple of times, but I didn't really know where he was coming from until we started the record and it was beautiful. It opened up my mind." - Freddie Hubbard
