(Extra)ordinary sayings about sound #8

by lawrence

“(Ornette) Coleman’s parents were too poor to be able to afford music lessons for him; Ornette acquired his musical tools on his own. No one told him that a saxophone is notated differently than it is tuned. So, at the age of fourteen to fifteen - a crucial phase in his development - he played everything written ‘wrong’ in the academic sense.” — Joachim E. Berendt (revised by Guenther Huesmann), The Jazz Book: From Ragtime to Fusion and Beyond.




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