The Jazz Loft
Thursday, November 19, 2009
After our look at the state of jazz in New York, we return to a golden age of the genre: the 1950s and '60s. Thousands of hours of tape recorded in a Manhattan loft during that era were recently discovered. They became WNYC’s Jazz Loft Project, a 10-part series produced in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Today’s episode is about a somewhat mysterious figure, Hall Overton, who is known primarily as Thelonious Monk’s arranger for the 1959 Big Band concert at Town Hall. It turns out Overton was a lot more. WNYC's Sara Fishko joins us for part four of the series.
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The whole idea of the blending from Classical to Jazz needs greater explication. Bernstein going into Jazz clubs to listen to drummers, McCoy Tyner studying Paul Hindemith; MDD, Julliard trained, asking Keith Jarrett in Paris how Jarrett played "from nothing" - Miles played from charts.
Coltrane studied Bartok; Dave Brubeck studied at Mills College under Darius Milhaud - look at the Octet album and listen to the fugues.
We have a long way to go.
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