Craft Recordings does its usual excellent job with 180G vinyl recordings that will allow a listener with good ears to really appreciate what Coleman was struggling to express. Weird tricks of pitch ...
The first time I saw Ornette Coleman live was in my hometown of Syracuse in the summer of 1986; the next month I moved West to begin my studies at CalArts with Charlie Haden and the other fine faculty ...
Ornette Coleman, jazz musician Coleman blowing the trumpet (Photo by Matias Nieto/Cover/Getty Images) Photo: Matias Nieto/Cover/Getty Images The poet Philip Larkin was notably reactionary, and a lot ...
Ornette Coleman has long been a puzzle to casual jazz fans, his name as baffling as his music, which seems to go everywhere and nowhere. If jazz is the “sound of surprise,” as Whitney Balliett once ...
On July 17th, 1967, the pioneering jazz saxophonist John Coltrane died of liver cancer. He was 40 years old. Four days later, the composer and saxophonist Ornette Coleman – who coined a movement with ...
Jazz’s version of the famous—or infamous—1913 Armory show that introduced Americans to modern art came on November 17, 1959, when Ornette Coleman began a run of shows at the Five Spot Cafe in New York ...
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