{"id":3748,"date":"2011-05-06T23:47:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T06:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=3748"},"modified":"2011-05-06T23:53:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-07T06:53:41","slug":"somethin-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=3748","title":{"rendered":"Somethin&#8217; Else"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Kag0vqS8CU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Cannonball Adderley &#8211; Somethin&#8217; Else<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the mid-90s, there was a jazz renaissance lead by youth, the kind of youth that might be now considered hipsters, except hipsters didn&#8217;t exist back then. But perhaps it was this youthful interest in bebop jazz along with jazz related culture like the Beats and novels like <em>On the Road<\/em> that re-introduced &#8216;hipster&#8217; back into the urban elite lexicon. All I know is that I was young and going to clubs in Hollywood to listen to other young people like myself try and play Miles Davis. But because I considered myself edgier and an anarchist, I didn&#8217;t listen to any old jazz, I listened to free jazz. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kqwdRBWvPs0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Ornette Coleman &#8211; Ramblin&#8217;<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nOne of my favorites was Ornette Coleman, I admit that I am a devoted follower of melody and love it so much more when I am deprived of it. Hence, my love of flirtatious free jazzers like Coleman who only hints at melody and makes me wait, teases me me until the final semi-melodic resolve, oh! I like it straight on too like this Cannonball Adderly song <em>Somethin&#8217; Else<\/em>, a song of exquisite rhythm &#8211; it pulls me in every time. Steady, steady until I&#8217;m lost in the beats and then come in all those wailing horns, plucked basses and pounding pianos. How could a girl not like this? Throw in some heroin and that&#8217;s excellence right there! Well, I don&#8217;t know if Adderly did heroin but it&#8217;s rumored Eric Dolphy did and sadly, he died young of heroin or diabetes, no one is quite sure. But before he moved onto the spectral plane he left behind <em>Hat and Beard<\/em> one of the finest pieces of music to have entered my ears. He&#8217;s another teaser, with all that chaos rubbing raw at the edges and then easing back into a cohesive collection of dissonant instrument noises. All the while his saxophone goes wildly on, and on.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7tnPkQufnZY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Eric Dolphy &#8211; Hat and Beard<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>And for fun, The Art Ensemble of Chicago:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PppJOrnVtkg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>The Art Ensemble of Chicago &#8211; Theme De Yoyo <\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n&#8220;Your voice is like a long fuck that&#8217;s music to your brain&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cannonball Adderley &#8211; Somethin&#8217; Else In the mid-90s, there was a jazz renaissance lead by youth, the kind of youth that might be now considered hipsters, except hipsters didn&#8217;t exist back then. But perhaps it was this youthful interest in bebop jazz along with jazz related culture like the Beats and novels like On the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=3748\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Somethin&#8217; Else<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3748"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3760,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748\/revisions\/3760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}