Milford Graves Documentary

Milford Graves Documentary = David Murray + others

Category:

Music

Tags:

• milford
• graves
• documentary
• david
• dave
• murray
• free
• jazz
• contemporary
• improvised
• music
• albert
• ayler

[wadedriver]

i usually love the videos you post and i appreciate that you do it. don't be hurt or angry, i just don't get this one. and by the way, i've been playing free jazz for 25 years so don't tell me i know nothing about it

[freeavantgardevideos]

@wadedriver I never said that you know nothing about free jazz or about anything related to music. How could I say that if I don´t even know you ? I can make coments only about what you said, so I said you can´t make an statement about a video that you didn´t watch in its entire version. And this has nothing to do about if I can or can´t handle criticism. Ok, I got tired of arguing on Internet. This Milford Graves film is around 1 hr and 40 mins long. Don´t judge the film by the excerpts here.

[wadedriver]

this is not a documentary about MILFORD GRAVES! it is shameless hero worship of ALBERT AYLER and oversanctified homages to COLTRANE...where is there anything about MILFORD? are their more parts to the documentary?

[freeavantgardevideos]

@wadedriver Oh yes this IS a documentary about Milford Graves. I have the entire version and watched it many times. Albert Ayler is focused in the beginning and in some other parts but the main focus IS Milford Graves. Don´t talk about something you don´t know and didn´t watch.

[freeavantgardevideos]

@freeavantgardevideos Ayler is presented as a main force, as Coltrane and yes it is a hommage to Ayler and there is a strong spiritual aspect, lots of times they talk about spirituality. But the main musician who appears 90 % of the time ( if not more ) is Milford, showned practicing some phrases in a forest, playing a long and strong duet with David Murray, showing his abilities on an african martial art, acupunture, talking about music improvisation and the importance of

[freeavantgardevideos]

the african drumming, he talks about the relation between heart beats and music and relates it to sadness and happiness. This is MILFORD who speaks about all these things.

[wadedriver]

i apologize dude. i thought i saw the whole thing and i was a little frustrated. please keep posting cool shit. we all love it.

[wadedriver]

i partially apologize FINALLY in pt. 3 there are clips of MILFORD playing but i maintain that the majority of the first 2 parts of the film is DAVID MURRAY talking.

[wadedriver]

well, i watched part's one through 3 and MILFORD is shown playing fairly inaudiblly one or 2 times in the background...first of all, don't ask for comments if you can't handle criticism. if there is more, i will watch it but all the AYLER/ COLTRANE worship is boring. i'm sorry if you don't like what i have to say but don't be an argumentative baby about it.

[BuckshotLaFunke1]

Interesting drummer. Thanks.