The great improvising clarinettist Perry Robinson died this week. Here is his personal account from "The Travelling Man" of his time as a student at The School of Jazz Lennox https://books.google.ca/books?id=G1eg3n ... &q&f=false And here's the trailer for a movie on the same subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... vpuHPGVVwQ
Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, David Baker, Paul Bley, Steve Kuhn, Ran Blake, Larry Ridley were also students. George Russell was on the faculty with Gunther Schuller, Dizzy Gillespie, Jimmy Giuffre, Jim Hall, the MJQ and many others
The School of Jazz in Lennox Massachusetts by Perry Robinson
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An open letter from Alice Russell. June 21, 2011, Brookline, Massachusetts. 1. DO NOT make insulting, mean spirited remarks about anyone or their work; there are a plethora of sites where you can rant unfettered. If you attack someone personally, your comments will be removed. You can post it, but I'm not paying for it. Go elsewhere, and let those artists who are actually interested in discussion and learning have the floor. 2. There will be NO posting of or links to copyrighted material without permission of the copyright owner. That's the law. And if you respect the work of people who make meaningful contributions, you should have no problem following this policy. 3. I appreciate many of the postings from so many of you. Please don't feel you have to spend your time "defending" the LCC to those who come here with the express purpose of disproving it. George worked for decades to disprove it himself; if you know his music, there's no question that it has gravity. And a final word: George was famous for his refusal to lower his standards in all areas of his life, no matter the cost. He twice refused concerts of his music at Lincoln Center Jazz because of their early position on what was authentically jazz. So save any speculation about the level of him as an artist and a man. The quotes on our websites were not written by George; they were written by critics/writers/scholars/fans over many years. Sincerely, Alice
An open letter from Alice Russell. June 21, 2011, Brookline, Massachusetts. 1. DO NOT make insulting, mean spirited remarks about anyone or their work; there are a plethora of sites where you can rant unfettered. If you attack someone personally, your comments will be removed. You can post it, but I'm not paying for it. Go elsewhere, and let those artists who are actually interested in discussion and learning have the floor. 2. There will be NO posting of or links to copyrighted material without permission of the copyright owner. That's the law. And if you respect the work of people who make meaningful contributions, you should have no problem following this policy. 3. I appreciate many of the postings from so many of you. Please don't feel you have to spend your time "defending" the LCC to those who come here with the express purpose of disproving it. George worked for decades to disprove it himself; if you know his music, there's no question that it has gravity. And a final word: George was famous for his refusal to lower his standards in all areas of his life, no matter the cost. He twice refused concerts of his music at Lincoln Center Jazz because of their early position on what was authentically jazz. So save any speculation about the level of him as an artist and a man. The quotes on our websites were not written by George; they were written by critics/writers/scholars/fans over many years. Sincerely, Alice
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Re: The School of Jazz in Lennox Massachusetts by Perry Robi
Your posting of the YouTube videos led me to appreciate Perry Robinson & his clarinet music...unheralded...great surprise at how he sounded... did/can do. Great music!
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Thanks sfphotoworks. I never met Perry Robinson, but I would go to gigs in New York as an audience member and from time to time his name would be unexpectedly announced and he'd come on and do some amazing free jazz improvisation and then leave. He was a legend. He also maintained a close friendship with the bass player Henry Grimes, who was on his first album. Henry disappeared from music for a while and then reappeared in Los Angeles, Perry went out to visit him. He tells the amazing story in this AAJ interview: https://www.allaboutjazz.com/a-fireside ... f.php?pg=3
There's another story in Perry's book about how he and Jimmy Giuffre were watching George Russell and Ornette Coleman play together at Lenox - and after they finished Jimmy fell to the floor kicking his legs in the air with excitement - at the sounds he heard.
Glad you like his playing.
b
There's another story in Perry's book about how he and Jimmy Giuffre were watching George Russell and Ornette Coleman play together at Lenox - and after they finished Jimmy fell to the floor kicking his legs in the air with excitement - at the sounds he heard.
Glad you like his playing.
b
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A link (thanks to Sandy Williams) to an unpublished recording of George Russell Sextet playing live at The School of Jazz in Lenox:
This is the setlist: http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/asxc ... noxMA.html
This is where to search for the link to the music http://tela.sugarmegs.org/ Note: search for George Russell and then scroll way down through the list of other stuff to the Lennox recordings (Sept 1960).
PS: There are also recordings in this set from many other musicians at the Benefit Concert (Sept 1959).
b
This is the setlist: http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/asxc ... noxMA.html
This is where to search for the link to the music http://tela.sugarmegs.org/ Note: search for George Russell and then scroll way down through the list of other stuff to the Lennox recordings (Sept 1960).
PS: There are also recordings in this set from many other musicians at the Benefit Concert (Sept 1959).
b
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Re: The School of Jazz in Lennox Massachusetts by Perry Robi
The film Music Inn was completed in 2007. I'm searching now. Here is a trailer with GR saying "Ornette Coleman" at 1:18:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvpuHPGVVwQ&t=78s
Just fyi, the links are going dead. If someone else wants to check this out, here is a motherload: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index. ... l-concert/
b
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvpuHPGVVwQ&t=78s
Just fyi, the links are going dead. If someone else wants to check this out, here is a motherload: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index. ... l-concert/
b
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Perry Robinson's final album with Andrea Centazzo was just released today. You can listen for free here: https://ictusrecords.bandcamp.com/album ... st-concert
Bob
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