{"id":82039,"date":"2023-12-27T21:15:25","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T20:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomajazz.com\/web\/?p=82039"},"modified":"2025-01-15T18:17:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T17:17:04","slug":"tony-oxley-in-memoriam-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/tony-oxley-in-memoriam-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Oxley In Memoriam"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tony<\/p>\n

Simon Goodwin – Modern Drummer<\/strong>: You mentioned harmony and rhythem, but you didn’t mention melody.<\/p>\n

Tony Oxley<\/strong>: It’s one of the things that belongs more to conventional music. It’s a very important element. In improvising, it is there to be used or disregarded as you feel. It isn’t the dogma with us, as it is in bebop -although a lot of the best bebop players haver probably dispensed with it. They play, say, 32 bars, and then they’re working on the structure. They’ve got the changes to work with, but some approach it melodically, working around the melody line. Others balance it between the chord structure and the melody, while still others would rather work on the structure and only occasionally refer to the melody. It’s a choice that you are given in the language of bebop.<\/p>\n

If you want to play a melody in improvised music, nobody’s going to stop you; but your main concern is trying to expand the language. Melody is there; it’s one of the elements. But we only use it if it has a relevance musically. We won’t be ruled by it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tony Oxley (1938-2023) In Memoriam<\/h3>\n

Cita tomada de la entrevista de Simon Woodwin (revista\u00a0Modern Drummer<\/em> de abril de 1990), a Tony Oxley.
\nFotograf\u00eda por Andy Newcombe https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/92523880@N00\/<\/a>. La fotograf\u00eda fue tomada el 17 de diciembre de 2008. Tony Oxley aparece con Cecil Taylor y Anthony Braxton.<\/p>\n

Texto: \u00a9 Simon Goodwin – Modern Drummer, 1990
\nImagen: Andy Newcombe – andynew<\/a>, CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>, via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n

M\u00e1s informaci\u00f3n<\/h3>\n

https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tony_Oxley<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/?s=tony+oxley&submit=Search<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

El 26 de diciembre de 2023 fallec\u00eda el baterista Tony Oxley. En Tomajazz le rendimos un homenaje con una reflexi\u00f3n publicada en la revista Modern Drummer y una fotograf\u00eda junto con Cecil Taylor y Anthony Braxton. 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