Randallopry

We used to go hear these guys down on St Simons Island when I was a kid.  I just found the old cassette tape and figured I had to transfer it, since it’s nowhere else to be found on the internets.  You can’t go wrong with a song about butter beans. 

Last night to celebrate quatro de mayo, we got together to record a few tunes by Ornette Coleman.  This is the newest form of our Ornette Coleman project called “So Roam, Child” consisting of Preston Smith(Bass), Ben Williams(Drums), and me(Piano).  We had never played or rehearsed the tunes with Ben before pushing record, but we have all been fans of Ornette’s music for a while and drew from our common knowledge of his melodies and philosophy.  All of these recordings were obviously done in one take as you can’t rehearse this kind of music. It just happens.  We used three mics and recorded at my house. Enjoy!

This first track is called “Congeniality” and is from The Shape of Jazz to Come

Heard this on H. Johnson in Atlanta few weeks ago and it blew me away.  Erroll Garner playing “Once in a While”.  I remember sight reading this tune on some gig a long time ago and thinking how boring it was. Obviously, I was wrong.

Professor Longhair

I have known about Professor Longhair for a while thanks to my friend Jacques, but I never knew about this track Big Chief. Ridiculous!  Ahh…New Orleans.