gestern hab ich zufällig hier ein tolles Dave Burrell Interview mit Clifford Allen von 2004 gelesen… dass er zum Beispiel als einer der ersten durch diese Berklee School Sache gelaufen ist… (war das Real Book aus der Burton Generation? ne, wahrscheinlich etwas später…)
so I went to Berklee. [When I got there] Quincy Jones was graduating, and I was much inspired by hearing his charts being played down in the basement. I was also impressed by Gary Burton and the way he and the upperclassmen were studying the music. In the dormitories it was pretty evident who was really serious about the music; Gary and his crowd were seniors, and they were bolder than we were – I was just getting started with Sonny Sharrock, Ted Daniel, and those people. I immediately saw that it had to be all or nothing at all; you couldn’t just practice sometimes. I had to really study very, very hard and that’s how I got the bug.
Amina Claudine Myers – Song For Mother E
im Stream, Myers an Piano und Orgel, nur begleitet von Pheeroan Aklaff, kannte ich nicht und gefällt mir sehr, auf jeden Fall schonmal mehr als das Bessie Smith Album… viel hat Myers ja über die Jahre nicht aufnehmen können, toll dass da jetzt nochmal was kommt…
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