Squid Tempest wrote: IanB wrote: Have a bit of a soft spot for "Are You Glad To Be In America?" and records from around that time but the everyone solos all the time thing is basically rocked-up Dixieland with, in some cases, a bit of 12 tone theory built on to it. It's basically Free Jazz with a firmer relationship to the core melodic line and usually a stricter rhythm than Free players would normally tolerate. So not based on chords or modes as such and leaning a lot more towards 4/4 and other standard time sigs. Not a bad thing itself but Ornette never really nailed down what Harmolodics are beyond that which kind of backs up my Dixieland goes electric theory.
I love James Blood Ulmer's Are You Glad To Be In America. Am I right in thinking that it is out of print at the moment? I've got it on scratchy old vinyl, but I'd love it on CD. Fantastic record.
Never seen a cd of it. I have the vinyl still and a badly edited mp3 rip of someone else's copy.
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