Tag Archives: Ed Blackwell / Cameron – Walls – Bridges

Among the great avant-garde tenors, Dewey Redman hasn’t received anywhere close to the acclaim that his boy Joshua Redman gained within the 1990s, but ironically Dewey is a lot more of a forward thinking player. He started on clarinet when he was 13 and performed in his senior high school …

Ed Blackwell produced his status as an associate of Ornette Coleman’s music group in the first ’60s; without that association, one miracles whether he’d be considered among the great jazz percussionists. That’s to consider nothing from his substantial capability, but Blackwell’s unfashionably arcane and relatively unpolished method of playing period …