SV: SV: SV: more on this temperament thing

[David J. Severance]

On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Ola Andersson wrote:

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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: David J. Severance <> > 
> > > > I disagree, there was never alot of atonal jazz.  A few avant garde
> > > > musicians such as Ornette Coleman experimented with atonality 
> > > 
> > > I can't remember a atonal recording with Ornette Coleman but he have done alo
> > t bitonal.
> > 
> > There were about 20 between 1959 and 1988 in which he experimented with
> > "free jazz" translation atonal
> 
> In my ears they were not atonal but maybe he did records I haven't heard doing this 
> But my point is that he and Charlid haden did alot songs with improvised "chord changes"
> Coleman wanted Charlie Haden to write a book about what he was doing. I think that Charlie Haden only play and have two of the best ears in jazz history. Nothing to write a book about.Coleman is mostly famous for his ideas of bi tonal improvising. I like most his periode before this with Haden and Don Cherry. Jarret and Whether report and that periode do alot improvised chord changes.
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> > No there is not much atonal music in comparison to tonal, miniscule.
> 
> And most of the played standard jazz is boring. Thats why I want to tune pianos so I can chose to play the music I want to play. To play only after charts has nothing with jazz and improvising to do.
> 
> Ola
> 
You might be right about Colemen, even though he improvises changes there
is a suggestion of key centers.  I like the fierceness of his playing but
I'm not real crazy about his music. Standard's are what I'm about but to
each his own.  By the way, I think music is a great hobby but a lousy
profession and that's why I tune pianos.  

David S