While I regroup and get stuff together for next week, let’s celebrate saxophonist, poet, and composer Archie Shepp’s 78th birthday with Attica Blues. Play this loud: And The Magic of Juju, with Ed Blackwell playing […]
Category: Ed Blackwell
Ed Blackwell on playing the Five Spot with Ornette
From Ted Panken’s 1986 interview with Ed Blackwell on WKCR NY: So when you got to New York, you found yourself in the midst of the scene that was shaking New York’s art community to […]
Daily best music in the world: Ornette live — 1973
I’ll be out for a couple of days here— playing at the Jazz Station in Eugene tonight with flugelhornist Dmitri Matheny, attending a memorial service for my partner/wife’s mother, and having my own birthday with […]
DBMITW: Cherry / Blackwell / Gurtu / Wolcott / Shankar
From the same YouTube user who posted yesterday’s Ed Blackwell videos, here’s a totally amazing concert recording of Don Cherry playing in Neuwied, Germany, with Ed Blackwell, Lakshmi Shankar, Colin Wolcott, and Trilok Gurtu, probably […]
Lost Ed Blackwell
Jon McCaslin @ Four On The Floor has posted some obscure (I’ve never seen them,anyway) Ed Blackwell videos— that’s all you should need to know to get over there and checkum out.
Transcription: Ed Blackwell — Happy House
UPDATE: Download link is now working! Here is Ed Blackwell playing the head of a fairly well known Ornette Colman tune, Happy House, with the band Old and New Dreams. The beginning of the tune […]
Transcription: Ed Blackwell — Guinea
OK, this one is definitely a labor of love— that took way too long to finish and proof. But I’ve been living with this piece for a good twenty years, and performing it for much […]
Transcription: Ed Blackwell solo — Tarik
Oh, what the hell, happy Saturnalia— I went ahead and transcribed the solo from the GOTD of a few days ago, Tarik, by Ed Blackwell, from Dewey Redman’s album of the same name. It’s a […]
Groove o’ the day: Ed Blackwell — Tarik
Here’s something from I think the first record with Ed Blackwell I ever bought: Tarik, by Dewey Redman. It’s sort of Blackwell’s tom tom thing boiled down to it’s smallest essence: It will be up […]
Groove o’ the day: Ed Blackwell — Lop-o-lop
Another Ed Blackwell 6/8 today, from an album you may have some trouble finding, Dewey Redman’s Tarik, on Aktuel. The drums play in two, and the bass (Malachi Favors, I think?) plays a fast 6. […]