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Monday, 26 December 2005 07:37 |
#23
"mohawk"
for goat carson
let us not read too much
into the titles of this session,
june 6, 1950,
bird & dizzy & monk
with curley russell on bass
& buddy rich so out of
place on drums, if max roach
had been on hand
to make this band hit
with a different edge
on the music, but that's jazz
& the way it has to play
with the specific individuals
who be on the set
that night, the music
of the men on the stand
& what we call it
just does not matter,
bird told symphony sid
in a radio interview
concerning these sessions, like he had
no idea how these songs
had got their names, he said
"it's all just
gone
music, man" and "i just
call them `rhythm'
or `blues' & they put
the names on them
after i've left the studio." monk,
on the other hand,
composed his music
on his own progressions
& fit the songs
to the names he gave them,
such precision
of rhythm & rhyme
as we see so rarely,
to take the hair off
the sides of the head
& leave just a strip
along the top,
scalping all pretense
for the baldness of statement,
building a new music
on the bones of the old
like bird, or like monk
with a whole new structure
of sound, breathing life
of its own, like nothing
that had ever
existed before
mohawk, mo-
hawk, monk & bird
& dizzy
creating a nation of music
& chopping away
at the dead flesh
& hair & muscle & bone
of what had been left for them
athens, ohio
march 1, 1986/
new york city
april 3, 1986
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