Results for "Ornette Coleman"

Ornette Coleman: Sound Grammar

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 23, 2006

Di fronte a quello che in genere - forse troppo spesso - viene definito ‘evento discografico’ sarebbe sempre bene mantenere un certo distacco. Diffidare delle roboanti presentazioni, per non rischiare di appiattire il proprio ascolto su piani tracciati da altri per altri meno nobili scopi. Perché di ‘evento discografico’ indubbiamente qui si tratta. Una nuova registrazione ...

Roma

Featuring the music of Ornette Coleman
Duration: 7:48
September 13, 2006

Ornette Coleman: Sound Grammar

by Dan McClenaghan
September 10, 2006

In the beginning of free jazz, there was Ornette Coleman. Actually, the alto saxophonist was the beginning of free jazz. His 1959 Atlantic recording The Shape of Jazz to Come followed on the heels of a couple of innovative smaller label outings that didn't make a splash at the time. Many musicians have followed Coleman down ...

Steve Khan: The Green Field

by John Kelman
February 14, 2006

Nine years have passed since guitarist Steve Khan last released an album as a leader. But he hasn't been inactive, touring with artists like Terri Lyne Carrington and Greg Osby and co-leading the Caribbean Jazz Project. However, it's been far too long since he's released an album putting his immediately recognizable style front and centre.

Falling Star

By Ornette Coleman

Label: Sound Grammar
Released: 2005

America's Been Tough On Jazz

by Eric Pettine
December 13, 2005

In America, he's his own man—he's got to be—no corporation seeks him out or needs him. Her attitude and attire doesn't always “cut it" with the latest vogue. He doesn't really have a particular deadline or agenda to meet. She's “got her ax down" and she's ready to carve out her own market share. He's got ...

Free to A Good Home

by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
August 17, 2005

Suppose you woke up tomorrow morning (around 7am, but you hit the snooze till about 7:30, before finally getting up to make some coffee), and found that all the old rules of music no longer applied. Notes no longer had to have any relationship with chords, chords didn't have to relate to keys, time was no ...

Ornette!

By Ornette Coleman

Label: Atlantic Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: W.R.U., T. & T., C. & D., R.P.D.D., Proof Readers

1959: A Great Year in Jazz

by Geoff Barber
October 27, 2004

My father really enjoys wine. We can go to a restaurant and he will talk to the waiter about wine for what seems like an eternity. The conversation normally revolves around the year a certain wine was fermented. He will settle on a year and enjoy a couple glasses with his meal. For the life of ...

Ornette Coleman Ouartet In Philadelphia

by AAJ Staff
September 20, 2004

The appearance of the Ornette Coleman Quartet at Verizon Hall in Philly's state-of-the-art Kimmel Center was his first performance in the City Of Brotherly Love since 1988. It was both a significant event and an artistic achievement of towering magnitude. The Coleman band, playing before a crowded and enthusiastic but not-quite-full house, let loose with a ...