I don’t reblog many posts, but I keep returning to Daniel Schnee’s essay on learning from Ornette Coleman. It rings so true for me, even (especially?) with regards to poetry, and how I approach it. Ah, to have had such a mentor!
天才を覚えます…
The depths of winter are beginning to sing their song… bringing with them the memory of lost summer heat, and bare skin against the wind… the lost smile of the sun’s freedom…
The picture above is my favorite picture of myself and my saxophone teacher, in his apartment in New York in the summer of 2009. It captures a very happy conclusion to my final saxophone lesson with him; post-duet bliss captured immediately after a lengthy improvisation. It is also the final time I saw him.
12 years earlier in the summer of 1997, while living/working in New York City, I had the privilege of meeting and becoming a student of this great man… Ornette Coleman (1930 – 2015), jazz legend/icon and recipient of both a Grammy™ Lifetime Achievement Award and Pulitzer Prize among other honours. He was a huge influence on much of the world’s art and music…
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O at the Edges 
“maps flowering into bouquets of maps” – Tank you for sharing, Robert. I enjoyed that.
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Treasures abound on Daniel’s blog.
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I REALLY appreciate the views! Thank you very much!
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Thank you. Hopefully folks are clicking through to Daniel Schnee’s site and finding the wonderfulness there as well as here. —CC
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That is my hope!
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They are, thanks to the attention you all are bringing to them. I REALLY appreciate it! Tausend Dank!
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Sugoi na!!
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🙂
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Boku no burogu was sugoi ka? Suteki!! Kansha shite imasu… hijou ni kyoushuku shite imasu!
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Your blog is amazing, Daniel. I have much to learn from you.
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If you find anything at all useful then I have achieved the only thing that matters to me blog-wise… sharing the genius/wisdom of my mentors and getting out all the info I picked up during my years of PhD research…for free so it doesn’t just stay tied up in academia hidden away in books and obscure journals that only three people read like such info used to do in the past. Now, in the span of a few seconds I can post all the major aesthetic terms I picked up during that time (years) and have it out there for public access and consumption. THAT, to me, is what makes life wonderful. So, thank you VERY much for helping me do so. BTW:
The poetic verses in the post? Thjose are the FIRST ‘poems’ I have ever written. You inspired me to make this post zuihitsu-like or haibun-ish. So thanks to YOU for getting me started ! 🙂
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And who knows what tomorrow brings?
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No matter what tomorrow brings I will be happy. A poet of your calibre liking what I do? I will be happy for a VERY long time because of your generosity… a HUGE gassho rei to you, Sensei…
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You are always too kind, Daniel. Thank you.
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Merry Christmas, Mr Okaji – thanks for your support. Bioman.
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And to you, sir! Thanks very much.
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