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Ornette Coleman: Town Hall 1962

Read "Town Hall 1962" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Sono almeno due i buoni motivi per cui questo disco di Ornette Coleman è da considerare con particolare attenzione e riguardo: innanzitutto contiene il primo esperimento di applicazione delle concezioni armolodiche ad una sezione d’archi (nel brano “Dedication to Poets and Writers”), ma soprattutto rappresenta la pietra miliare di un cambiamento epocale, quello del 1962. Il ...

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To Whom Who Keeps a Record

By Ornette Coleman

Label: Water Music
Released: 2008
Track listing: Music Always; Brings Goodness; To Us All; P.S. Unless One Has (Blues Connotation No. 2); Some Other; Motive for its Use.

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Ornette Coleman Town Hall, 1962

By Ornette Coleman

Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2008
Track listing: Doughnut; Sadness; Dedication To Poets And Writers; The Ark.

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Article: Live Review

Moscow City Jazz Festival 2008

Read "Moscow City Jazz Festival 2008" reviewed by Frederick Bernas

by Frederick Bernas

City Jazz Festival December 4-5, 2008 16 Tons Moscow, RussiaErik Truffaz December 4 Swiss trumpeter Erik Truffaz, a moderately well-known figure on the international tour circuit, surely counts Russia as a favorite gigging destination. This concert, in a popular pub-cum-music-club called 16 Tons, saw him welcomed ...

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Ornette Coleman 2 Bass Quartet

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by AAJ Italy Staff

Teatro Manzoni - Milano - 03.11.2008 I fari che tracciano una scia luminosa verso il palco, il respiro trattenuto che immobilizza il teatro, i musicisti che prendono posizione dietro i rispettivi strumenti e... E poi compare Ornette, fiero di figura e di portamento, sgargiante nell’elegante completo turchese e la scena improvvisamente si illumina, non di colori ...

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Article: Album Review

Pat Metheny & Anna Maria Jopek: Upojenie

Read "Upojenie" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May

An oddity this one, even within the variegated discography of Pat Metheny. It features the guitarist alongside Polish singer Anna Maria Jopek and a group of mostly Polish musicians, recorded in Warsaw during 2002. Half the set features lyricised and re-titled versions of Metheny compositions, sung in Polish; the other half are originals composed in the ...

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Pat Metheny w/ Dave Holland & Roy Haynes: Question and Answer

Read "Question and Answer" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

As Nonesuch's remaster/reissue program of guitarist Pat Metheny's Geffen-era discography draws to a close, one of the best discs from that period, Question and Answer, finally sounds the way it should, revealing itself to be deserving of even greater accolades than it received when first released in 1990. Better known for his flagship Pat ...

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News: Festival

Ornette Coleman Borrows from the Classics at Jazz Festival

Ornette Coleman Borrows from the Classics at Jazz Festival

One of the most successful Chicago Jazz Festivals on record (both for attendance and quality of programming) ended with a bang Sunday night, and that wasn't just the sound of fireworks over the lake co-mingling with Denardo Coleman's bass drum beats during the closing set. The Petrillo Music Shell had hosted cut-above local tenorist Ron Dewar ...

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News: Festival

Ode to Ornette

Ode to Ornette

Chicago's certified jazz genius talks the deeper meaning of free jazz. By Ken Vandermark EDITOR'S NOTE: In 1959, a 29-year-old Ornette Coleman released his second album for Atlantic (and just his fourth in all), The Shape of Jazz to Come. The title told the simple truth: Coleman thought outside the bop and charted new territory ...

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Article: Live Review

Ornette Coleman Quartet at the Discover Jazz Festival in Burlington, Vermont

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by Hrayr Attarian

Ornette Coleman Quartet Discover Jazz Festival, Flynn TheaterBurlington, Vermont June 6th, 2008 Ornette Coleman and his quartet were the headline act that closed the exceptionally successful 25th Annual Discover Jazz Festival, playing to an almost full house at the Flynn Theatre in downtown Burlington on June 7th 2008. The musicians walked ...


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