Rec | FREE JAZZ

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I think if I like, really had to think about it, free jazz is the pinnacle of music. I wish I could dedicate my life to jazz. watch this sun ra performance. you’ll feel the same way

@markiemoon

Mar 30, 2024

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Sonny Rollins

For music I mean… music's so hard. I love music so much. I was looking at this picture called A Great Day in Harlem and it's a collection of jazz artists taking a picture on a stoop in Harlem. It's a very iconic photograph. Sonny Rollins is in the picture and he's still alive– I think he just turned 90. He's been around a long time. Sonny Rollins is my favorite player of all time and that's a hard thing to say because there's a lot of sax players I love. He's got a record called East Broadway Rundown that is just one of the most astonishing recordings I've ever heard in my life. There's a song on there called East Broadway Rundown and it's quite long, almost 20 minutes long I think. That's one of my favorite songs to listen to. The places it goes to, you just don't hear very often. There's a big component of the jazz or genre of jazz, I guess called free jazz that can get pretty out there, and a lot of people hear it are like, “oh, that just sounds like cats in pain or something” and they're not really into it, and I can understand that sometimes. It's not for everybody. Sonny, on this song, gets to a place that's even beyond free jazz. It's some world that exists only in this song. I've never heard it in any other song. Sonny Rollins in general, his devotion to playing, the fact that he was already successful in his field and yet took time off to to practice on the bridge because he wasn't satisfied with where he was at and he wanted to push himself even further. I just always admired the heck out of him.

@michael-shannon

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revolutionary album. contains some elements of what would eventually become free jazz while still operating within relatively traditional song structures. caused me to re-evaluate how i interact with and create art. one of my absolute favorites right now.

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LISTENING TO LIVE JAZZ AS A BRAIN MASSAGE

Do you know what it takes to be so free that you can improvise instrumental music with other musicians for hours? Will you let that conversation vibrate with every cell of your being, rattle your consciousness and alert you to the possibility of the present moment? Have you ever listened so hard that you could hear yourself smile? Could you open up your heart to a room, and then make that room the world?