My research for my audio paper has been about free jazz as a whole, and trying to find documentation of the impact this music has had on peoples minds. For this I will also conduct primary research by interviewing various artists who have been impacted by free-jazz, and asking them about this impact and how it has affected their thinking. The artists I plan to interview are: muva of Earth, jkarri & I am also going to attempt to conduct an interview with Maxwell Sterling & Kenichi Iwasa if possible, as they are two musicians that I highly admire (who I’ve had the honour of collaborating with on a project) and who I know have definitely been impacted significantly by the Free-Jazz & Avant-garde jazz movements (so much so that Iwasa even uses some of Don Cherry’s original horns). I think conducting these interviews will give me an opportunity to ask exactly what I want to know about first hand experiences of musicians and how they feel about the point I’m trying to make in my audio paper.
The musicians I want to focus on historically in the 60’s free jazz movement are Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane & Sun Ra, as these are 3 vital figures in this movement who have had significant impacts in the lineage of this idea/ movement. I will also look into other significant artists such as Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler, Milford Graves & Roscoe Mitchell (& the art ensemble of Chicago as a whole). For this research I have been listening to albums, reading books, and going over interviews.
- https://www.discogs.com/search/?q=&type=all&type=all&genre_exact=Jazz&style_exact=Free+Jazz (has been a reference of free-jazz albums for me to listen to to find albums outside of my existing knowledge & listening, and has helped broaden my scope on the lineage of free-jazz in the timeline since its conception
- https://www.britannica.com/art/free-jazz
- https://www.britannica.com/art/jazz/Free-jazz-the-explorations-of-Ornette-Coleman#ref395988
- https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10599
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thHlJ3_0qHw
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-ornettecoleman-factbox-idUSKBN0OR23220150611
- https://artsfuse.org/208200/jazz-commentary-ornette-coleman-an-outsider-cracks-the-egg/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pYcjfzixME