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New Vocabulary: New Vocabulary

by Mark Corroto
January 3, 2015

Saxophonist Ornette Coleman has such an original voice that his horn would be recognizable if he sat in with a Japanese noise band. Like late-Miles Davis appearances, the pleasure is hearing his distinctive blues-drenched sound, the plaintive cry of his alto saxophone. He last surfaced, on a recording that is, with Sonny Rollins' Road Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy, 2011) making a guest appearance in 2010 at the Beacon theatre to accompany Rollins on “Sonnymoon For Two." New Vocabulary ...