http://www.pampelmoose.com/mspeaks/2006/10/rashied-ali-at-the-blue-monk-friday-saturday music . media . web. culture Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:33:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.pampelmoose.com/mspeaks/2006/10/rashied-ali-at-the-blue-monk-friday-saturday#comment-1179 Dave Allen Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:45:50 +0000 http://www.pampelmoose.com/mspeaks/?p=436#comment-1179 Hi Tim, I don't think yours was posted when I ran the blurb...! Hi Tim, I don’t think yours was posted when I ran the blurb…!

]]> http://www.pampelmoose.com/mspeaks/2006/10/rashied-ali-at-the-blue-monk-friday-saturday#comment-1177 TdR Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:25:58 +0000 http://www.pampelmoose.com/mspeaks/?p=436#comment-1177 Hughley? He's a theater critic now. . . HA! you could at least quote a so-called "jazz critic". . .Here's what the idiot in the WWeek sed: If drummer Rashied Ali had only ever played on John Coltrane's landmark "Interstellar Space"—an ecstatic, multidirectional series of pulsating, urgently spiritual sax-drum duets—he'd be a legend. But in fact, this awe-inspiring, combustible, whirling-dervish jazz energy has remained a guiding light for more than 40 years, working with giants like Don Cherry, Pharoah Sanders, Paul Bley, Archie Shepp, Bill Dixon, and Albert Ayler, and inspiring acolytes with his strength and emotional intensity. From his throne, Ali continues to deliver kaleidoscopic, suspenseful tours of jazz history, a backwards-forwards, push-me/pull-you ride that embraces jazz's "sound of surprise" and the gorgeous depths of melody simultaneously. This excellent unit (featuring Seattle-ite trumpeter Jumaane Smith, pianist Greg Murphy, Lawrence Clark, tenor sax and Joris Teepe, bass) is one of his strongest in years. Hughley? He’s a theater critic now. . . HA! you could at least quote a so-called “jazz critic”. . .Here’s what the idiot in the WWeek sed:
If drummer Rashied Ali had only ever played on John Coltrane’s landmark “Interstellar Space”—an ecstatic, multidirectional series of pulsating, urgently spiritual sax-drum duets—he’d be a legend. But in fact, this awe-inspiring, combustible, whirling-dervish jazz energy has remained a guiding light for more than 40 years, working with giants like Don Cherry, Pharoah Sanders, Paul Bley, Archie Shepp, Bill Dixon, and Albert Ayler, and inspiring acolytes with his strength and emotional intensity. From his throne, Ali continues to deliver kaleidoscopic, suspenseful tours of jazz history, a backwards-forwards, push-me/pull-you ride that embraces jazz’s “sound of surprise” and the gorgeous depths of melody simultaneously. This excellent unit (featuring Seattle-ite trumpeter Jumaane Smith, pianist Greg Murphy, Lawrence Clark, tenor sax and Joris Teepe, bass) is one of his strongest in years.

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