Saturday, September 19, 2020

Daily best music in the world: harmolodic rock

From the 80s, when you could play this kind of music and get an apparently-decent recording contract, here is some James Blood Ulmer. It seems to fit the mood of the day.



Harmolodics, for the unitiated, is a homebrewed theory of improvisation practiced by Ornette Coleman. I suspect it's more “some things Ornette did or suggested, as elliptically described by him” than a true theory. See also Ornette Coleman's Prime Time and Ronald Shannon Jackson.

A little stylistic feature in this type of playing is that they like to put a stop or accent on 4— every measure or every two measures. A minor thing you'll hear a lot.

2 comments:

James Lambe said...

I have a transcription of the opening of Revelation March that may be of interest: http://drummersannoymous.blogspot.com/2016/10/are-you-glad-to-be-in-america_10.html

Todd Bishop said...

Thanks James, I'll take a look, and add you to the blogroll.