To show that he could escape this background he became a dis-farmer ('not a farmer') and changed his name to Mike Disfarmer. Call it a jazz from a parallel universe that doesn't sound or feel much like jazz but is its close twin.ĭisfarmer was a reclusive photographer called Mike Meyers who lived from 1884 to 1959 and was one of seven children in a German origin Arkansas farming family. It's as if he is discovering a lost thread in American music – what might have happened if the Poor Whites of the Dustbowls of the Depression era had set themselves a challenge as demanding as their Black counterparts in developing their blues roots into a music like jazz. If you could somehow gather up the musical nous of Charles Ives, Woody Guthrie, Hank Wiliams and John Fahey and refract it through the lens of a genius like Miles Davis you might end up with the increasingly individualistic music of Bill Frisell.
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