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08-16-2008, 12:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Bronx, NY | | | Ornette Coleman's bass player?
I am now listening to the "Ken Burns Jazz: Ornette Coleman" compilation (?) and I'm wondering about who played upright with Coleman. I'm not certain of the era, but all of the bass on that album is excellent so I might as well hear as many names as possible
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08-16-2008, 12:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Philadelphia | | | Charlie Haden is on the shape of jazz to come, and is awesome on it.
I dont have any other Ornette Colleman cd's |
08-16-2008, 06:27 AM
| | | | For the most part Ornette played with Charlie Haden, but he also occasionally played with Scott LaFaro (Free Jazz and several other tunes) and David Izenzon (Live at the Golden Circle Stockholm). |
08-16-2008, 07:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Berlin, Germany | | | Most of his recent stuff is with Greg Cohen. |
08-16-2008, 10:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Houston, Tx | | | My favorite is the stuff with Izenzon. That was great bass playing. |
08-16-2008, 11:49 AM
| | | | As of late, I've been digging Ornette's recent "Sound Grammar" with two basses - Greg Cohen (mostly pizz) and Tony Falanga (mostly arco). I think the Ken Burns material was with Charlie Haden, but I haven't watched that in awhile. |
08-16-2008, 09:37 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Knoxville, TN | | | The Ken Burns stuff is probably his Atlantic stuff which is mostly Haden.
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08-17-2008, 12:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Alameda, CA, USA | | | Jimmy Garrison was in the mix, too ("Ornette on Tenor", "Love Call"," New York is Now"), in the late sixties, but I don't know if any of that music made it to the Burns cd.
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08-19-2008, 09:28 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New York City | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Karl  Most of his recent stuff is with Greg Cohen. |
The guy from Masada? Huh, I did not know that. Cool... |
08-20-2008, 08:02 PM
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Endorsing artist:see profile/Current Setup | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: CHICAGO,IL. | | | As of late Ornette has been utilizing three bass players.
Greg Cohen and Tony Falanga on upright and Al Macdowell on electric bass.
I had a very interesting conversation with Ornette just today. |
08-20-2008, 08:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Portland, Oregon | | Jauqo... you never fail to amaze me. I'd love to buy you a drink and listen to some stories some day. 
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08-20-2008, 08:08 PM
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Originally Posted by scottice Jauqo... you never fail to amaze me. I'd love to buy you a drink and listen to some stories some day. | Ornette is a very very good friend of mine. |
08-20-2008, 08:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Portland, Oregon | | | Well I'd like to buy you BOTH beers and listen to stories. It might take a few months though.
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08-20-2008, 08:14 PM
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Originally Posted by scottice Well I'd like to buy you BOTH beers and listen to stories. It might take a few months though. | |
08-20-2008, 08:37 PM
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Lark in the Morning Instructional Videos; Audix Microphones | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Santa Cruz Mtns, California | | | I believe that Jamaaladeen Tacuma played for Ornette for a while, as well.
Great bass player.
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08-20-2008, 09:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: New York City | | Quote:
Originally Posted by damonsmith My favorite is the stuff with Izenzon. That was great bass playing. | +1
The Izenzon playing is fantastic, with Ornette and anybody else. |
08-20-2008, 09:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Kansas City, MO | | | Ornette's first album on the Contemporary label has Don Payne on bass. Recorded in 1958. I think this is Ornette's first recording.
I think Don is living in the Miami area. |
08-20-2008, 09:56 PM
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08-21-2008, 05:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Germany | | | There's also Red Mitchell and Percy Heath on "Tomorrow Is The Question". |
08-21-2008, 11:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Boston, MA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JAUQO III-X As of late Ornette has been utilizing three bass players.
Greg Cohen and Tony Falanga on upright and Al Macdowell on electric bass.
| Tony Falanga is such a great player. He was already a beautiful and modest bassist when I went to school with him (briefly) many years ago...and he's just gotten better and better and better... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPclt2R7xbE
Tony's the one nailing the Bach Prelude from the first 'Cello Suite, on the left. Horrible sound and camera work, but you get the idea...
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