“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Fresh Holdsworth

Thank you Cliff!

It's always a good day when there is fresh Holdsworth to hear. Chad Wackerman, my favorite drummer, put this together.

Douglas Kahn has some great stuff about jazz as letting go of ego and listening rather than expressing, which is exactly what I argue in The Ecological Thought.

Holdsworth, like Miles Davis, is the quintessence of music that listens to itself.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

And Ornette Colman Is in the deeper extent of this by liquifying even the basis of synthetic tonality, the harmonic principle that underlies the music of Miles Davies and Allan Holdsworth.

Unknown said...

And Ornette Colman Is in the deeper extent of this by liquifying the perimeters of synthetic tonality, the harmonic principle that underlies the music of Miles Davies and Allan Holdsworth.

cgerrish said...

great name for a drummer