The Explanation
(for those who require one)
And, of course, that is what all of this is -- all of this: the one song, ever changing, ever reincarnated, that speaks somehow from and to and for that which is ineffable within us and without us, that is both prayer and deliverance, folly and wisdom, that inspires us to dance or smile or simply to go on, senselessly, incomprehensibly, beatifically, in the face of mortality and the truth that our lives are more ill-writ, ill-rhymed and fleeting than any song, except perhaps those songs -- that song, endlesly reincarnated -- born of that truth, be it the moon and June of that truth, or the wordless blue moan, or the rotgut or the elegant poetry of it. That nameless black-hulled ship of Ulysses, that long black train, that Terraplane, that mystery train, that Rocket '88', that Buick 6 -- same journey, same miracle, same end and endlessness."
-- Nick Tosches, Where Dead Voices Gather
14 comments:
Did Ornette Coleman really play the violin left-handed? Or is the image reversed?
Could be; but if the image is reversed, I ain't the one what reversed it.
As a hopeless absolute beginner in Jazz, all I can say is that in this series you put all my favourite "cats". Viva Hank Mobley!!!
Thanks for the shout out . . . .
For what it's worth, Wikipedia says he's a lefty on the violin.
Other photos of Ornette Coleman playing the violin available on the Internets, show him playing left-handed.
What a grouping of greats!
Beautiful! Lee Morgan actually appears to (side) winding. Roy Haynes is scandalously dressed down. But my favorite has gotta be Bud Powell.
Miles Davis ist der eleganteste,Bobby Timmons sehr relext.Immer wieder gerne höre ich Pharoah Sanders.
Tom...
Thank you so much for this series. These people were my models, my mentors, my teachers. It was a truly remarkable generation of musicians, that post-WWII through the '70s group of players, a school through which an already great art peaked and flourished. These photos capture the way they really were.
Positive, intense and vivid.
Not just the photos...the people themselves.
Thanks again...
AG
All I can say is, thanks for posting those great pics.
That picture of Coltrane made a great poster until it was destroyed when the levees broke after Hurricane Katrina.
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