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- From: mingus@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Damballah Wedo)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote
- Subject: Re: On Drugs, Bebop and The Wire
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.071015.11021@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 07:10:15 GMT
- References: <RSHAPIRO.92Dec29154328@kariba.bbn.com> <1992Dec29.211926.11248@pony.Ingres.COM> <SMEHTA.92Dec30115921@kwela.nynexst.com>
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- > smehta@nynexst.com (Sandep Mehta):
- > In his new book on Ornette Coleman, John Litweiler describes how
- > Ornette struggled with the drug problems with his "classic" quartet.
- > Apparently, at one time one of the members was flying back to NYC,
- > from an out of town engagement, *every* day to get the daily supply
- > for everyone. When he confronted Blackwell (I think), Ornette was
- > told that heroin help them "hear better" and weren't they playing
- > well high? Being the believing kind, Ornette began to wonder if there
- > was something to playing under the influence of heroin. So he tried
- > it once and had such a bad trip that he never touched the stuff
- > again. Often, Ornette would be forced to support his musician's
- > habits financially because as much as he hated it and what it was
- > doing to his musicians he liked all of them a lot. Inevitably, the
- > group disintegrated. Haden struggled on and off for many years trying
- > to kick the habit and hadn't yet kicked it when he returned to play
- > with Ornette. Don Cherry too took a long time before he kicked his
- > habit.
-
- Check out the cover of THIS IS OUR MUSIC. I remember reading an
- interview with Haden some years ago in which he said he was so
- fucked up during that photo session, it was all he could do to
- keep from puking. Ask yourself is that young man struggling to
- keep his head upright is what you imagine a hep cat ought to look
- like, and what you would like to be.
- --
- Marcel-Franck Simon mingus@usl.com, usl!mingus
-
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