ich bin auch so ein George Coleman Fan, der keins seiner Alben kennt – er hatte irgendwie das Pech (?) zu der Zeit als seine Art zu spielen in Mode war keine eigenen Alben aufzunehmen, diese Sachen ab 1976 haben alle schon so einen leicht uninspirierte Ausstrahlung, Quartette die Standards spielen, hässliche Covers… [also: ich hab sie nie gehört und werd das sicherlich mal nachholen, ich mein nur die Aura]; es gibt allerdings neben den Miles Sachen und Maiden Voyage noch einiges aus den 60ern was sich absolut lohnt, die Sessions mit Chet Baker leben sehr von Colemans Beiträgen, es gibt schöne Alben von Harold Mabern, Reuben Wilson, John Patton…
es gab noch andere Saxophonisten, die zwischen Coltrane und Shorter kurze Gastspiele hatten, Frank Strozier, Rocky Boyd, ich mein auch Jimmy Heath… Coleman würd ich allerdings mehr als eine Ersatzsmannrolle zugestehen… ich hab das mit dem Konflikt zwischen Miles und Rivers glaub ich auch irgendwo gelesen, kann aber auch Quatsch sein … [google] ein Zitat von Rivers
On Miles Davis’s „Live in Tokyo“ album you stole the show. How did it feel to be so young and upstaging the most famous jazz musician in the world at that time?
Rivers: Actually I was older than Miles at the time – by a year or two. I really didn’t think I upstaged him. He sounded really good. He was sick at the time, but he sounded great. We were good friends, even throughout his whole life. When I played with Dizzy Gillespie, we talked all the time. I was just supposed to play with Miles until Art Blakey came back off tour with Wayne Shorter, and it was supposed to be a transfer, but I joined with Andrew Hill instead. There wasn’t any animosity – that’s just the way it went down. Miles had wanted Wayne for many years before that.
von hier, sehr interessante Diskussion… also, scheinbar tatsächlich ein Ersatzmanngig…
nochmal Rivers, auch von dort
But the thing is, there’s always been this story out how much advanced I was, that Miles wasn’t happy with my style. It wasn’t that at all. Miles was right there with it. He understood. He could hear what I was doing. It wasn’t a problem at all. The thing was that he had already been committed to Wayne Shorter. So the deal was that when Wayne left Art Blakey, I was supposed to go with Art Blakey, and it was supposed to be a trade like that. But I didn’t want to go with Art Blakey. I went with Andrew Hill instead. So we went on tour with Andrew Hill, and that’s the way it went down. It wasn’t anything about me being much more advanced than Miles. Miles was just as advanced. In certain ways he wanted to produce his free stuff, which is what he did in Bitches Brew and everything. All these things are pretty much free over the static rhythm, like I mentioned before. So he wanted to make sure that I projected the music to the public, and reach a wider audience.“
die von icculus verlinkte Radiosendung (die sich aus eben jenem Thread entwickelt hat…) hab ich mir vor Jahren mal angehört, die ist auch gut…
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