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John Francis Mehegan (June 6, 1916 – April 3, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, lecturer and critic.

Early life[edit]

Mehegan was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on June 6, 1916, although he sometimes gave the year as 1920.^[1] He began playing the violin in 1926 and played for seven years without enjoying it.^[1] He initially taught himself to play the piano by matching his fingers to the notes played on a player piano.^[1] He went on to study at the Hartt School of Music in Hartford.^[1] He had gigs in the Massachusetts area, and then moved to New York in 1941.^[2]

Later life and career[edit]

In New York, Mehegan played in clubs.^[1] He recorded four quartet tracks as a leader for Savoy Records in 1945.^[1][2] In the same year, he became teaching assistant to pianist Teddy Wilson in the jazz department at the Metropolitan Music School,^[3] and became the head of its jazz department in 1946; a position he held for around a decade.^[1] He also taught at the Juilliard School of Music (1947–64), Columbia University Teachers College (1958 to 1961 or 1962), the University of Bridgeport (1968–77) and Yale University (1974–83).^[1]

He wrote the incidental music for A Streetcar Named Desire which he performed on Broadway for two years.^[3] Mehegan was questioned by the House Un-American Activities Committee, where he was an uncooperative witness.^[4] He was the jazz critic for the New York Herald Tribune from 1957 to 1960.^[3] 'A summer concert, lecture, and research tour of South Africa in 1959 was cut short because he encouraged black musicians, but while there he recorded with the group which was about to become the Jazz Epistles'.^[1] His final recordings, as a trio, were made in 1960.^[2]

He wrote numerous books on jazz, including the Jazz Improvisation series, which sets out the basic principles of jazz,^[5] and was published between 1959 and 1965.^[1]

The American composer Leonard Bernstein dedicated a piano composition to Mehegan in his 1948 collection Four Anniversaries.^[6] Mehegan died in New Canaan, Connecticut, on April 3, 1984.^[1]

Discography[edit]

• 1952 From Barrelhouse to Bop (Perspective) - with Charles Mingus
• 1954 The First Mehegan (Savoy)
• 1955 The John Mehegan Trio/Quartet (Savoy) - with Charles Mingus & Kenny Clarke
• 1955 A Pair of Pianos (Savoy)- with Eddie Costa & Vinnie Burke
• 1956 How I Play Jazz Piano (Savoy)
• 1959 Casual Affair

With Chuck Wayne

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• The Jazz Guitarist (Savoy, 1954 [1956])

Techniques, studies & etudes for piano[edit]

• Contemporary Styles for the Jazz Pianist, in 3 books (1964–70)
• Famous Jazz Style Piano Folio - with instruction on how to play jazz piano (1958)
• Jazz Improvisation (1959-65)
  • • Vol. 1: Tonal and rhythmic principles (1959)
    • Vol. 2: Jazz rhythm and the improvised line (1962)
    • Vol. 3: Swing and early progressive piano styles (1964)
    • Vol. 4: Contemporary piano styles (1965)
• The Jazz Pianist, in 3 books: Studies in the art and practice of jazz improvisation (1960–61)
• Styles for the Jazz Pianist, in 3 books (1962–63)
• Studies in Jazz Harmony (1962)

Original compositions for piano[edit]

• Jazz Bourree (1960)
• Jazz Preludes (1962)
• Vienna Woodshed, a jazz waltz for piano 4-hands (1965)
• Jazz Caper, jazz originals for piano 4-hands (1965)

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abcdefghijkKernfeld, Barry (2003), Mehegan, John (Francis), Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press, retrieved December 19, 2018
2. ^ ^abcYanow, Scott. 'John Mehegan'. AllMusic. Retrieved December 19, 2018.
3. ^ ^abcWilson, John S. (April 5, 1984) 'John Mehegan, Jazz Pianist; Wrote 4-Volume Textbook' New York Times p D30
4. ^Porter, Russell (April 10, 1957) 'Inquiry Charges Red Link in Music' New York Times, p 18L
5. ^Dunscomb, Richard J. & Hill Jr., Willie L. (2002) Jazz Pedagogy Alfred Music Publishing, p336
6. ^Allmusic

Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation is the sixth album by jazzsaxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman, released on Atlantic Records in 1961, his fourth for the label. Its title established the name of the then-nascent free jazz movement. The recording session took place on December 21, 1960, at A&R Studios in New York City. The sole outtake from the album session, 'First Take,' was later released on the 1971 compilation Twins.

• 4Track listing of the original LP

The Music[edit]

The music is a continuous free improvisation with only a few brief pre-determined sections. The music was recorded in one single “take” with no overdubbing or editing.^[6]

The album features what Coleman called a “double quartet,” i.e., two self-contained jazz quartets, each with two wind instruments and each with a rhythm section consisting of bass and drums.The two quartets are heard in separate channels with Coleman’s regular group in the left channel and the second quartet in the right.

The two quartets play simultaneously with the two rhythm sections providing a dense rhythmic foundation over which the wind players either solo or provide freeform commentaries that often turn into full-scale collective improvisation interspersed with pre-determined composed passages. The composed thematic material can be considered a series of brief, dissonantfanfares for the horns which serve as interludes between solos. Next font. Not least among the album's achievements was that it was the first album-length improvisation, nearly forty minutes, which was unheard of at the time.

The original LP package incorporated Jackson Pollock's 1954 painting The White Light.^[7] The cover was a gatefold with a cutout window in the lower right corner allowing a glimpse of the painting; opening the cover revealed the full artwork, along with liner notes by critic Martin Williams. Coleman was a fan of Pollock as well as a painter, and his 1966 LP The Empty Foxhole features Coleman's own artwork.^[8][9]

Reception[edit]

In the January 18, 1962 issue of Down Beat magazine, in a special review titled 'Double View of a Double Quartet,' Pete Welding awarded the album Five Stars while John A. Tynan rated it No Stars.^[10]

The album was identified by Chris Kelsey in his Allmusic essay 'Free Jazz: A Subjective History' as one of the 20 Essential Free Jazz albums.^[11] It served as the blueprint for later large-ensemble free jazz recordings such as Ascension by John Coltrane and Machine Gun by Peter Brötzmann.

On March 3, 1998, Free Jazz was reissued on compact disc by Rhino Records as part of its Atlantic 50 series. The 'Free Jazz' track, split into two sections for each side of the LP, appeared here in continuous uninterrupted form, along with a bonus track of the previously issued 'First Take.'

Personnel[edit]

Left channel

• Ornette Coleman – alto saxophone
• Don Cherry – pocket trumpet
• Scott LaFaro – bass
• Billy Higgins – drums

Right channel

• Eric Dolphy – bass clarinet
• Freddie Hubbard – trumpet
• Charlie Haden – bass
• Ed Blackwell – drums

Track listing of the original LP[edit]

Composition by Ornette Coleman. Compact disc running time for 'Free Jazz' listed as 37:03.

On the CD version, 'Free Jazz' is presented as one continuous track.

Side one[edit]

Side two[edit]

1998 CD bonus track[edit]

Timing of the various sections[edit]

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• 00:00 Polyphonic introduction
• 00:07 Ensemble introduction to Eric Dolphy
• 00:22 Eric Dolphy – Bass Clarinet solo (right channel)
• 05:12 Ensemble introduction to Freddie Hubbard
• 05:40 Freddie Hubbard – Trumpet (right channel)
• 09:54 Ensemble introduction to Ornette Coleman
• 10:05 Ornette Coleman Alto Saxophone solo (left channel)
• 19:36 Ensemble Introduction to Don Cherry
• 19:48 Don Cherry – Pocket Trumpet solo (left channel)
• 25:21 Ensemble Introduction to Charlie Haden
• 25:26 Charlie Haden – Bass Solo (right channel)
• 29:51 Ensemble introduction to Scott LaFaro
• 30:00 Scott LaFaro – Bass Solo (left channel)
• 33:47 Polyphonic ensemble introduction to Ed Blackwell
• 34:00 Ed Blackwell – Drum Solo (right channel)
• 35:19 Ensemble pitch introduction to Billy Higgins
• 35:28 Billy Higgins – Drum Solo (left channel)

Production[edit]

• Tom Dowd – recording engineer
• Nesuhi Ertegün – producer

References[edit]

1. ^Down Beat: January 18, 1962 vol. 29, no. 2
2. ^Allmusic Review
3. ^Richard Cook and Brian Morton, The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, 7th ed. (Penguin, 2004), p. 322.
4. ^Yahoo! Music review
5. ^Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 45. ISBN0-394-72643-X.
6. ^Liner notes to Atlantic Records album 1364.
7. ^Jazz: A Film By Ken Burns, Episode 9, 2001.
8. ^Borgerson, Janet (2017). Designed for hi-fi living : the vinyl LP in midcentury America. Schroeder, Jonathan E., 1962-, Miller, Daniel, 1954-. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. p. 90. ISBN9780262036238. OCLC958205262.
9. ^'Ornette Coleman and Jackson Pollock: Black Music, White Light'. federaljazzpolicy.com. Retrieved 2017-09-20.
10. ^Down Beat: January 18, 1962 vol. 29, no. 2
11. ^Kelsey, C. Free Jazz: A Subjective History accessed December 7, 2009

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