Articles tagged "ornette coleman"

Column: Jazz Today

Middleman: Joshua Redman and Jazz’s Vanishing Division

by Will Layman

[23.Jan.09] :. "The position of not taking a side has endured." Joshua Redman talks about the hoary division between tradition and innovation, the spatial approach to doubled rhythm sections, and jazz's academic antidote.

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Ornette Coleman: Then and Now

by Sean Murphy

[10.Nov.08] :. When Obama takes office in January of 2009, it will be a half-century since Free Jazz forefather Ornette Coleman dropped the provocatively titled “The Shape of Jazz to Come”. 1959 was a...

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Sound Affects

Is Free Jazz really still free?

by John Bohannon

[4.Jun.08] :. This clip taken from a 1981 documentary titled Imagine the Sound is a rare document of one of the avant-garde world’s greatest piano players, Cecil Taylor. Most footage that has been...

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Ornette finally gets props

by Jason Gross

[19.Apr.07] :. It’s great that Ornette Coleman was honored by the Pulitzer board but looking back at his history and their history reveals some unpleasant truths about said board. ...

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Music Review

Ornette Coleman: At the Golden Circle, Volume One/Two

by James Beaudreau

[7.Jan.02] :. To press play in a small apartment in Brooklyn in 2002 and be privy to a well-preserved 1965 concert is like activating voodoo in your house. Unseen instruments move the air in secret ways, and I can...

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Ornette Coleman: Skies of America / The Complete Science Fiction Sessions

by Dan Moos

[1.May.00] :. Picasso used to be shocking. It was garbage. John Coltrane used to hurt people’s ears. Charlie Parker just made lots of staccato noise. Now, Picasso prints adorn dorm walls and Coltrane and...

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