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Ornette Coleman

Jazz Album Review: Ornette Coleman — Very Much the “Genesis of Genius”

Ornette Coleman turned to me and said, “You know, you can never really be out of tune. You are always in tune with something.”

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Craft Recordings, Genesis of Genius: The Contemporary Albums, Michael Ullman, Ornette Coleman, Something Else!

Jazz Album Review: Miguel Zenón’s Law Years Band & Christian McBride’s New Jawn Band

Two pianoless quartets + two restless leaders = some of the best music of the last few years.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Celebrity-Series, Christian McBride, Law Years, Miguel Zenón, Ornette Coleman, Stave Sessions

Jazz Survey: Chordless Drills – A Listener’s Guide to the Saxophone Trio

Here is a personal selection of recordings in the saxophone trio format. These linear collaborations have been part of the jazz scene for at least seventy years now. The results are almost always illuminating and exhilarating, and a review of them offers a miniature history of saxophone styles.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz Tagged: Air, Albert Ayler, Bob Moses, Bradford Marsalis, Dave Liebman, David Murray, Elvin Jones, Fly, Henry Grimes, Henry Threadgill, JD Allen, Joe Henderson, Joe Lovano, John-Coltrane, Jon Irabagon, Kenny Garrett, Lee Konitz, Marcus Strickland, Mark Turner, Melissa Aldana, Ornette Coleman, Sam Rivers, Saxophone trio, Sonny-Rollins, Steve Adams, Steve Elman, Steve Lacy, The Fringe

Jazz Commentary: Ornette Coleman — An Outsider Cracks the Egg

The final, ineluctable quality that Ornette Coleman brought to the table was that he had an individual “voice,” which is the sine qua non and preeminent ethos in jazz.

By: Steve Provizer Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Ornette Coleman, Steve Provizer

Book Review: Ornette Coleman –The Life of a Jazz Visionary

“Ornette was looking for those notes, the ones that feel no pain.”

By: Steve Provizer Filed Under: Books, Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Maria Golia, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure, Steve Provizer

CD/DVD Review: “Celebrate Ornette” — An Exuberant Homage to a Jazz Genius

This collection demonstrates that the music of Ornette Coleman is in tune with something elemental and essential in the human spirit.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Celebrate Ornette, Denardo Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Song X Records

Arts Fuse Appreciation: Ornette Coleman’s Horn of Plenty

So there was the Ornette Coleman Quartet, leading off the final side of vinyl with a cut that changed my life, “Lonely Woman.”

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Milo Miles, Ornette Coleman

Jazz Remembrance: Ornette is Gone, and Musicians Reacted

Ornette Coleman

The profound impact of Ornette Coleman can be seen in the reactions of the music world to his passing.

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Ornette Coleman

Music Remembrance: Ornette Coleman — The Gentle Iconoclast

Ornette Coleman’s music was avant-garde but, perhaps unconsciously, his notion of art as free lyrical adventure was deeply American.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Billy Higgins, Charlie Haden, Don Cherry, free jazz, Ornette Coleman, The Shape of Jazz to Come

Music Commentary: Talent Beyond Time — Music Veterans Quietly Have a Landmark Year

Of course this Social Security Six is a fluke, not a trend. And at first, the albums seem to have nothing in common beyond persistence and determination by the leaders. And not even that.

By: Milo Miles Filed Under: Music, Popular Music, World Music Tagged: Andrew Hill, Bob-Dylan, Jerry Lee Lewis, Lee Scratch Perry, Milo Miles, Ornette Coleman, Social Security Six, Sonny-Rollins

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