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THE BARGAIN BUY: Ornette Coleman; Original Album Series (Rhino)

...great saxophonist/composer Ornette Coleman never seems to have been in any doubt... ...Jazz, and then the exclamation mark inclusive Ornette! just to re-enforce the surprises he wrought... ...of articles about, and an interview with, Ornette Coleman (start here) so we needn't go over...

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Ira Cohen: Ornette Comes Home (1994)

...and on this piece there is a sample from Ornette Coleman's album Dancing in Your Head which...

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Ornette Coleman: Sound Grammar (Sound Grammar)

...a pity -- and disappointing given it won Ornette Coleman a jazz Grammy earlier this year, and...

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ORNETTE COLEMAN: Notes for the programme, International Festival of the Arts, Wellington NZ 2008

...embarrassing re-run of former glories. Yet Ornette Coleman (born in Fort Worth, Texas, 1930) has... ...years, belatedly recognised as a genius, Ornette Coleman is remarkably slight.” I also... ...successful independent careers. These days Ornette Coleman is as likely to be name-checked by... ...of jazz classes. As John Litweiler wrote in Ornette Coleman: A Harmolodic Life, “Ornette... ...as adventurous as any in his 50 year career. Ornette Coleman, a genius now in his late 70s, still... ...-- yet none I anticipated as eagerly as seeing Ornette Coleman live. I had missed him by a week in... ...essay was written for the programme of the Ornette Coleman concert at the International Festival...

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Ornette Coleman: Friends and Neighbors (Flying Dutchman/Border)

...day I interviewed Ornette Coleman -- the composer/jazz musician I place... ...-- the photographer snapped off some pix of Ornette and I on the couch together. He promised to... ...of Coleman's 1970 album Friends and Neighbors; Ornette Live at Prince Street. Naturally I bought it... ...Friends and Neighbours is an entry-level Ornette Coleman album for those a bit fearful of... ...came flooding back. There is a lot more on Ornette Coleman at Elsewhere -- including that...

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Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/5736/ornette-coleman-friends-and-neighbors-flying-dutchman-border/

ORNETTE COLEMAN AND THE NAKED LUNCH SOUNDTRACK (1991): Something else, again

...David Cronenberg was a gutsy guy, asking Ornette Coleman to play on the soundtrack for his... ...crusty old Bill Burroughs’ Naked Lunch. Ornette Coleman was the perfect choice, of course... ...proposition. As with most people of vision, Ornette just had to wait for the world to catch up.... ...Free Jazz album five times over. Ornette – he just can’t win. But he is a... ...over box sets or reissues. Or maybe not. Ornette is just too big to encompass. Try getting your... ...drums to add a random factor to the rhythms (Ornette at 12 in ’69), recorded with Friends and... ...another book out about him, The Adventures of Ornette Coleman or the Harmolodic Life, and he gets... ...son Denardo, who was responsible for perhaps Ornette’s most accessible album, Virgin Beauty... ...all devoted to Coleman under headings such as Ornette Coleman’s Beautiful Difference and... ...to do something historic to open the Caravan. Ornette’s a major influence in the music world...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/2301/ornette-coleman-and-the-naked-lunch-soundtrack-1991-something-else-again/

ORNETTE COLEMAN, LOVE REVOLUTION 1968: The Italian job

...thought I knew all about Ornette Coleman, a man nominally described as a jazz... ...got bootlegs and biographies, and a photo of Ornette and me on a couch in a New York loft taken... ...a slavish fan. So yes, I thought I knew my Ornette -- until I recently picked up a double disc of... ...his emotionally affecting music. But I guess Ornette was moving on: a fortnight later he was at the... ...of Coleman’s idiosyncratic vision. Ornette Coleman is -- and I say this as one who...

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THE BARGAIN BUY: Ornette Coleman; To Whom Who Keeps a Record

...are many obscure or out-of-print albums in Ornette Coleman's vast catalogue but this counts as...

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ORNETTE COLEMAN, DAVE BRUBECK AND ME: A Song For Guy

...on to the composer and multi-instrumentalist Ornette Coleman whose music I came to love with a... ...I would borrow Ornette albums from Guy -- we always referred to him... ...I would turn up with remarkable regularity. Ornette became my project, I wanted to hear every note... ...had played. Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman was born in Fort Worth, Texas although... ...Contemporary Records put them in the studio. Ornette and his bands started releasing albums with... ...I wrote the programme notes) I had never seen Ornette play but I had passed my passion forward: my... ...in London for his 33rd birthday, it was also Ornette’s 75th. But I had met Ornette Coleman in... ...Led Zeppelin Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. But Ornette was The One, and the one who made me feel the... ...studio and the door opened: there he was. Ornette Coleman. He was dressed in a blue checked suit... ...years, belatedly recognised as a genius. Ornette Coleman is remarkably slight. "Even with...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/352/ornette-coleman-dave-brubeck-and-me-a-song-for-guy/

Ornette Coleman, The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959)

...(I forget which one) and the other is with Ornette Coleman. I said if he thought his readers... ...know who Ornette was then I'd be happy to write something and... ...appearing in that magazine. But for me meeting Ornette Coleman was the highpoint of my music... ...it off, and it sits on my desk. When I met Ornette Coleman in the mid 90s he was about 65 and... ...It was improvised music and jazz for sure, and Ornette played a plastic saxophone.But Coleman told me... ...liner notes with, "I believe that what Ornette Coleman is playing will affect the whole... ...or exciting . . . But it's arguable that Ornette has influenced the Sonic Youth generation more... ...style is pretty hard to fathom and Ornette is prone to saying things like, "remove... ...photo taken with him. There are about a dozen Ornette Coleman albums that could be recommended as a... ...the Century; This is Our Music; Free Jazz and Ornette! . Ornette Coleman died in June 2015. He was...

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The Ornette Coleman Trio: At the Golden Circle, Stockholm. Vol 1 (1965)

...far as I can see by looking back, Ornette Coleman is the first artist to have two... ...as the best jazz musicians do. For more on Ornette Coleman at Elsewhere start here....

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James Blood Ulmer: Are You Glad To Be In America (1980)

...His pedigree was impeccable: anointed by Ornette Coleman with whom he played, a fellow...

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RAVI COLTRANE INTERVIEWED (2007): First rays of the new rising son

...and like most people I came to him through Ornette Coleman but have followed his career avidly.... ...Coleman because I’ve just mentioned Ornette whose harmolodic theory bewilders me as I...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/1764/ravi-coltrane-interviewed-2007-first-rays-of-the-new-rising-son/

JOE LOVANO, A CAREER CONSIDERATION (2004): Sax in every direction

...manner of Joe Henderson, Pharoah Sanders or Ornette Coleman. Kind of lost in the unmarketable... ...in nonet settings. He has explored material by Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk as...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/1867/joe-lovano-a-career-consideration-2004-sax-in-every-direction/

JIM PEPPER, REMEMBERED (2025): A man comin' . . . an' too soon goin'

...with whom Pepper later toured West Africa) and Ornette Coleman who had encouraged him to explore his... ...getting it in free jazz maelstom akin to Ornette Coleman -- is from a Kaw war dance. Aside from...

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BILL LASWELL INTERVIEWED (1994): In the den of the alchemist

...fabled Master Musicians of Jajouka with whom Ornette Coleman played and Brian Jones of the Rolling...

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The Master Musicians of Jajouka: Brian Jones presents The Pipes of Pan at Jajouka (1971)

...a profound effect on some musicians, notably Ornette Coleman who went to Morocco to explore the...

Essential Elsewhere: essentialelsewhere/3621/the-master-musicians-of-jajouka-brian-jones-presents-the-pipes-of-pan-at-jajouka-1971/

Motian/Lovano/Frisell; Time and Time Again (2007)

...senior statesmen of jazz. Yes, figures such as Ornette Coleman and Joe Henderson are still around,...

Essential Elsewhere: essentialelsewhere/796/motian-lovano-frisell-time-and-time-again-2007/

THE KRONOS QUARTET COMES TO TOWN (1988): The Talking Heads of the classical world

...Hendrix’ Purple Haze, others the soaring Ornette Coleman blues. They were hip and they were... ...such as Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans and Ornette Coleman . . . and the Hendrix. “The...

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ENRICO RAVA AND NEW YORK DAYS: The trumpet calls the faithful

...flourish with all the geometric melodicism of Ornette Coleman. It’s quite some six minutes....

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/2209/enrico-rava-and-new-york-days-the-trumpet-calls-the-faithful/

Blood and Burger: Guitar Music (Derniere Bande)

...Ulmer delivered exceptional albums of post-Ornette Coleman harmolodic music such as Tales of...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/3847/blood-and-burger-guitar-music-derniere-bande/

Lou Reed: The Raven (Reprise)

...(who include Laurie Anderson, saxophonist Ornette Coleman, the McGarrigle sisters, actors Steve...

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MILES DAVIS. ON THE CORNER, REVISITED (2022): Jazz-funk at 50

...Davis also conceded he finally understood what Ornette Coleman had been saying about how it was...

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MILES DAVIS, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1990): Miles runs the voodoo down

...the past five decades. He can be blunt (“Ornette Coleman is a jealous kind of dude, man”)...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/1776/miles-davis-the-autobiography-1990-miles-runs-the-voodoo-down/

AN EVENING IN 1965 WITH ORNETTE COLEMAN (2018): Another British 'Judas' shouter in the audience

...special day. Like this one, An Evening With Ornette Coleman, released originally for RSD in 2016... ...according to his biographer John Litweiler in Ornette Coleman; A Harmolodic Life), the Virtuoso... ...previous and his move from alto sax on the Ornette on Tenor album in '61 where he seemed to go... ...punk-pink. There is much more at Elsewhere on Ornette Coleman including an interview, overviews and...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/8394/an-evening-in-1965-with-ornette-coleman-2018-another-british-judas-shouter-in-the-audience/

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT . . . CHAPPAQUA: Ornette, Ravi and Rooks at a strange crossroad

...a guru, naturally). Also in a cameo was Ornette Coleman (as a man eating peyote) and Rooks... ...(which appeared on the album An Evening With Ornette Coleman aka The London Concert, essayed here)... ...as Coleman biographer John Litweiler noted in Ornette Coleman; A Harmolodic Life (William Morrow,... ...seen Chappaqua is remembered is that rejected Ornette Coleman soundtrack which was released in an... ...on the French and Japanese CBS labels without Ornette's authorisation”. Some critics have been... ...and often brilliantly improvised performances. Ornette Coleman's Chappaqua Suite is readily available... ...direction of three very different musicians: Ornette Coleman, Ravi Shankar and Phillip Glass....

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PAT METHENY INTERVIEWED (2020): Him and Ornette dancing in their heads

...was Metheny on guitars and guitar synths with Ornette Coleman, bassist Charlie Haden and drummers... ...Let's talk about Song X and your work with Ornette whom I have met and always admired. I... ...sounds like we are similar then. I got hip to Ornette when I was very young and I didn't even... ...I just kept alternating between the two. Ornette came to hear us a bunch of times and that was... ...10 years and Charlie was really missing it. Ornette came to the Village Vanguard two or three... ...that we'd have Jack [DeJohnette] play – Ornette had never played with Jack – and he... ...has his unique thing going on. As it happened Ornette and Denardo and I spent about a month, five... ...that aded another thing. But even by that time Ornette and I had quite a thing going on. But like... ...for me. And if you got to hang out with Ornette then you know he was one of the most beautiful... ...release – is available on Spotify here. Ornette Coleman died in June 2015 at age 85. There is...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/9273/pat-metheny-interviewed-2020-him-and-ornette-dancing-in-their-heads/

ORNETTE COLEMAN, INTERVIEWED (1996): The gentle genial genius in conversation

...Street, in the same midtown building as one of Ornette's studios. . For a man who's had his lights... ...years -- belatedly recognised as a genius, Ornette Coleman is remarkably slight. Even with his... ...seem to have ever posed much of a threat. Yet Ornette Coleman has been on the flat end of a fist or... ...directions. This then is Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman, most often associated with jazz but... ...has always seemed to me that there's a lot of Ornette Coleman music out there in the world that... ...children they have no few preconceptions about Ornette Coleman music, they just listen to Virgin... ...of him playing? Yes, we know exactly what Ornette Coleman wanted to do in 1962 because there it... ...That's what I've been blabbing with you! . Ornette Coleman died in June 2015. He was 85. .... ...Elsewhere has long considered Ornette Coleman one of the greatest musicians of the... ...of bragging, here is me . . . with the great Ornette Coleman....

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Holm-Svendsen, Sommer, Praśniewski: Totem (April Records/digital outlets)

...jazz which peels off from the likes of Ornette Coleman and Sonny Rollins as this trio of...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/11162/holm-svendsen-sommer-praśniewski-totem-april-records-digital-outlets/

Elsewhere Art . . . Dave Brubeck

When I first thought of doing a collage to accompany a piece on Dave Brubeck this idea was almost too obvious: in his younger days he had been on the cover of Time, and his most popular album was Time

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Joe Harriott: Gana (1967)

...free playing in the manner of Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman, play a session with bluesman Sonny...

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Miho Wada: Postcards to Your Bed (mihowada.com)

...sure doesn't sound like Guitar Wolf going all Ornette Coleman your arse. It opens with a rather lame...

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THE BLUE NOTE LABEL AT 75 (2014): Vision, visuals and visionaries in jazz

...jazz (among them Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Dexter Gordon, Thelonious Monk, Sonny...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/6185/the-blue-note-label-at-75-2014-vision-visuals-and-visionaries-in-jazz/

Frank Gibson Jnr: Rainbow Bridge (Ode)

...late 50s on Trinkle Tinkle), Wayne Shorter and Ornette Coleman (whose demanding Happy House proves an...

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RAVI SHANKAR (1920 - 2012): More Than One Lifetime

My collection of schoolboy poetry which I would agonise over late at night, laboriously using my Scripto fountain pen and Radiant Blue ink, has long since vanished. Thank God. I’m sure it was fu

World Music from Elsewhere: world-music/332/ravi-shankar-1920-2012-more-than-one-lifetime/

CECIL TAYLOR IN 1990: Florescent flights

...less than engrossing. Cecil Taylor, along with Ornette Coleman, is perhaps the most consistently...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/3386/cecil-taylor-in-1990-florescent-flights/

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Neill Fraser of Villainy

Auckland alt.rock band Villainy scored a major coup for the cover of their debut album Mode Set Clear -- see below -- they had the famous Storm Thorgerson (renown for his Pink Floyd album artwork) des

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Charles Lloyd: Lift Every Voice (2002)

...LA to study, hung out with the avant-garde of Ornette Coleman and Eric Dolphy, joined Chico...

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Pat Metheny/Cuong Vu Trio: Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny (Nonesuch)

...Miles Davis influences out of the way to nudge Ornette Coleman's style (which Davis felt insulting to... ...and cited him as a genius) and Vu understand Ornette's harmolidic theory -- "remove the cast...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/7495/pat-metheny-cuong-vu-trio-cuong-vu-trio-meets-pat-metheny-nonesuch/

ANTON FIER PROFILED (1988): A new career in a new town

...Herbie Hancock’s Rock It together), ex-Ornette Coleman bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma, downtown... ...the ear of jazz listeners who had tuned in to Ornette Coleman's Prime Time sound and the urban funk...

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ELVIS PRESLEY, THE KING RECLAIMING HIS CROWN IN 1968: Stranger in a strange land

...Howe who had worked with jazz legends such as Ornette Coleman and would later produce Tom Waits) and...

Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/2107/elvis-presley-the-king-reclaiming-his-crown-in-1968-stranger-in-a-strange-land/

SHOTS FROM ALL SIDES: The art of sensible souveniring

...in LA. My most cherished however were two rare Ornette Coleman albums picked up in New York street...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE INNOVATOR'S QUESTIONNAIRE: Che Chen of 75 Dollar Bill

...to three. I’d say the entire catalogs of Ornette Coleman, Nina Simone, and Eliane Radigue... ...Kaul’s Dhrupad Shirley Clarke’s Ornette Coleman: Made in America Agnes Varda’s... ...Braxton & Derek Bailey: First Duo Concert Ornette Coleman: Sound Grammar Bill Dixon with...

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Various Artists: Machaut Man and a Superman Hat; The Music of Dave Lisik (Rattle Jazz)

...and Sixties of the likes of Thelonious Monk, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Charles Mingus....

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Davy Graham: Maajun (1964)

...music which would soon inspire Brian Jones, Ornette Coleman then Bill Laswell and any number of...

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Bernie McGann: 1966 (Sarang Bang)

...in the form of Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy and Ornette Coleman -- whose When Will the Blues Leave?...

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TOMASZ STANKO INTERVIEWED (2009): A blow for freedom

...Dave Brubeck in 1958, before being inspired by Ornette Coleman and making the great leap sideways... ...his jazz work. In the Seventies he played with Ornette Coleman-alumnus Don Cherry and Penderecki,...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/2769/tomasz-stanko-interviewed-2009-a-blow-for-freedom/

Cecil Taylor Unit/Roswell Rudd Sextet: Mixed (Impulse!/Universal)

...of a better word, "jazz" musician Ornette Coleman has undergone critical and public... ...the centre of the main frame. That said, both Ornette's and Cecil's most recent free-form stuff is...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/10217/cecil-taylor-unit-roswell-rudd-sextet-mixed-impulse-universal/

PERE UBU REISSUED, PART FOUR (2018): The long and grinding road

...space as the verse-chorus pop structure. Think Ornette Coleman's harmolodics principles...

Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/8369/pere-ubu-reissued-part-four-2018-the-long-and-grinding-road/

BOB THIELE PROFILED (2013): At the helm of the Flying Dutchman

...black American artists, psychedelic rock, Ornette Coleman, Pharoah Sanders and producing a group... ...Holiday for a Graveyard written and played by Ornette Coleman. It was recorded live at Coltrane's...

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BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2011 Marcin Wasilewski Trio: Faithful (ECM/Ode)

...piano; the album takes its title from the Ornette Coleman ballad from the Sixties (on The Empty...

Music at Elsewhere: music/4275/best-of-elsewhere-2011-marcin-wasilewski-trio-faithful-ecm-ode/

Joe Henry: Blood From Stars (Anti)

...his early albums) but moved gently into jazz (Ornette Coleman made a guest appearance on the Scar...

Music at Elsewhere: music/2514/joe-henry-blood-from-stars-anti/

ALAN BROADBENT INTERVIEWED: The art of time, and timing

To my horror recently, I realised it had been almost a quarter of a century since I first interviewed the LA-based expat jazz pianist Alan Broadbent. It was 1984 and he was briefly back in Auckland to

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/1827/alan-broadbent-interviewed-the-art-of-time-and-timing/

REVOLUTION, COMING RIGHT AT YA: The message in the music

...players like Archie Shepp, Albert Ayler and Ornette Coleman (among others) to Impulse. From there... ...and peace abides") and an extract from Ornette Coleman's loft session Friends and Neighbours...

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Radical Invisibility: Radical Invisibility (577 Records/digital outlets)

...session where Miles Davis has teamed up with Ornette Coleman's Prime Time band (toned-down) with...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/9164/radical-invisibility-radical-invisibility-577-records-digital-outlets/

Pharoah Sanders, Floating Points, LSO: Promises (Luaka Bop/digital outlets)

...bands, then played free jazz with Sun Ra and Ornette Coleman, joined up with John Coltrane in the...

Music at Elsewhere: music/9812/pharoah-sanders-floating-points-lso-promises-luaka-bop-digital-outlets/

Charles Mingus: Thirteen Pictures, The Charles Mingus Anthology (1993)

...John McLaughlin. A bassist, pianist and, like Ornette Coleman, he was most commonly referred to as...

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JIMI HENDRIX, AN ESSAY: In my Life

...Like the jazz musicians Thelonious Monk and Ornette Coleman, reggae singers Burning Spear and Bob...

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WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT . . . LA MONTE YOUNG AND HIS WELL TUNED PIANO: The master of minimalism, and more

...and the trumpeter Don Cherry (later part of Ornette Coleman’s groups). He also scored a...

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WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT . . . THE SHAGGS: Sisters doing it for themselves

...inner logic" and he compares them with Ornette Coleman you have to think he's either deluded...

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Last Exit: Iron Path (1988)

...Johnson sesions; and drummer Jackson (from Ornette Coleman's hometown of Fort Worth) had hooked...

Essential Elsewhere: essentialelsewhere/6765/last-exit-iron-path-1988/

PAT METHENY INTERVIEWED (2020): The confounding career of Pat Metheny

...also Song X in the mid 80s with saxophonist Ornette Coleman, described by British critic Richard... ...There is more with Pat Metheny talking about Ornette Coleman at Elsewhere here. (This interview was...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/9312/pat-metheny-interviewed-2020-the-confounding-career-of-pat-metheny/

Dinner Party: Enigmatic Society (digital outlets)

...Renaissance (like a subdued spin-off from Ornette Coleman's Prime Time) is disappointingly short...

Music at Elsewhere: music/10683/dinner-party-enigmatic-society-digital-outlets/

The Colourplates: Agony and Ecstasy (Green Monkey)

...material and the claim they were inspired by Ornette Coleman and the Dave Clark Five isn't to be... ...A Very Good Year. Their orignals include Ornette, Kamikaze Teardrop and Drunk Munchkin Marching...

Music at Elsewhere: music/5716/the-colourplates-agony-and-ecstasy-green-monkey/

QUEEN; FROM RAGS TO RHAPSODY a band-sanctioned doco. Director uncredited

...from the Beatles and Supremes to Yoko Ono, Ornette Coleman and Sonic Youth). And there are those...

Film at Elsewhere: film/7729/queen-from-rags-to-rhapsody-a-band-sanctioned-doco-director-uncredited/

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT . . . PATTY WATERS' ALBUM, SINGS: It's black then gets blackblackblack

...name and with Don Cherry), Pharoah Sanders, Ornette Coleman (Town Hall Concert 1962), the Fugs,...

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Triplets: The Triplets Book (iii/bandcamp)

...Stones, Wabi-Sabi) are along the axis of Ornette Coleman (notably his more accessible Virgin...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/10359/triplets-the-triplets-book-iii-bandcamp/

RECOMMENDED RECORD: Nathan Haines: Notes (digital outlets)

...and I recall suggesting to Nathan he listen to Ornette Coleman, which might have been a bridge too...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/11239/recommended-record-nathan-haines-notes-digital-outlets/

CHRIS BOWDEN (2002): His slightly askew career

...remind of a less harmolodic treatment of Ornette Coleman's heavily orchestrated Skies of...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/3082/chris-bowden-2002-his-slightly-askew-career/

THE DIRTBOMBS INTERVIEWED (2004): Detroit's punk soul brothers

...and two guitars is like a punk version of Ornette Coleman's double quintet on his Free Jazz...

Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/4619/the-dirtbombs-interviewed-2004-detroits-punk-soul-brothers/

CHARLES MINGUS RE-DISCOVERED, AGAIN (2018): The black saint of jazz past, and in the present

...the period they prefer. Some like Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman or Alice Coltrane languish for a while...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/8668/charles-mingus-re-discovered-again-2018-the-black-saint-of-jazz-past-and-in-the-present/

Master Musicians of Jajouka/Bachir Attar: Dancing Under the Moon (Glitterbeat/digital outlets)

...and having mentioned them in the context of Ornette Coleman, who recorded with them a decade...

Music at Elsewhere: music/10386/master-musicians-of-jajouka-bachir-attar-dancing-under-the-moon-glitterbeat-digital-outlets/

STEVE REICH'S CAREER CONSIDERED: From taxi driver to concert master

...guitarist Metheny - who had worked with Ornette Coleman in jazz and David Bowie in rock. For...

Tagged with: la monte young | philip glass | steve reich |

Cultural Elsewhere: culturalelsewhere/2026/steve-reichs-career-considered-from-taxi-driver-to-concert-master/

Various Artists: Message from the Tribe (Universal Sound/Southbound)

...players but were inspired by Archie Shepp, Ornette Coleman and politicised free jazz, and the...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/3420/various-artists-message-from-the-tribe-universal-sound-southbound/

JEAN-PAUL BOURELLY: JUNGLE COWBOY, CONSIDERED (1987): His avant-gotta direction debut album

...jazz credentials – time with Art Blakey, Ornette Coleman and Arthur Blythe among them –...

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The Album Considered: albumconsidered/9720/jean-paul-bourelly-jungle-cowboy-considered-1987-his-avant-gotta-direction-debut-album/

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT . . . SANDY BULL: He had the whole world in his hands

...Billy Higgins, perhaps best known for being in Ornette Coleman's early group. The first side with...

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WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT . . .: weneedtotalkabout/6995/we-need-to-talk-about--sandy-bull-he-had-the-whole-world-in-his-hands/

Elvis Presley: The Complete '68 Comeback Special (SonyBMG)

...Howe who had worked with jazz legends such as Ornette Coleman and would later produce for Tom waits)...

Music at Elsewhere: music/1749/elvis-presley-the-complete-68-comeback-special-sonybmg/

Joe Henry: All The Eye Can See (digital outlets)

...alt.country, he's worked with jazz musicians (Ornette Coleman, Marc Ribot) and, on this 16th album...

Music at Elsewhere: music/10597/joe-henry-all-the-eye-can-see-digital-outlets/

Wojtek Mazolewski Quartet: Polka, Deluxe Edition (Whirlwind/Southbound)

...and the bassist/composer says he owes debts to Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy and Albert Ayler, but...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/8533/wojtek-mazolewski-quartet-polka-deluxe-edition-whirlwind-southbound/

Tim Hopkins: Seven (Rattle Jazz)

...and references to melancholy and melodic Ornette Coleman of the 60s (Road From Perdition)....

Tagged with: new zealand jazz | new zealand music |

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/4586/tim-hopkins-seven-rattle-jazz/

SUPERBREW: Journeys in the past

...makossa exploration reaching towards Ornette Coleman. And in the final track,...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/3573/superbrew-journeys-in-the-past/

BERNARD STOLLMAN INTERVIEWED (2013): Lawman with ESP for new music

...geniuses of modern music such as Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Pharoah Sanders and Sun... ...'You help musicians, why aren't you helping Ornette and Cecil?' and I said, 'Ornette and Cecil...

Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/5684/bernard-stollman-interviewed-2013-lawman-with-esp-for-new-music/

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE PRODUCER QUESTIONNAIRE: Trevor Reekie of Trip To The Moon

...couple of years) I’ve subscribed to the Ornette Coleman theory where he said “The sound...

The Famous Elsewhere Questionnaire: thefamouselsewherequestionnaire/7614/the-famous-elsewhere-producer-questionnaire-trevor-reekie-of-trip-to-the-moon/

3 SHADES OF BLUE by JAMES KAPLAN

...Cannonball Adderley, Art Blakey, Chet Baker, Ornette Coleman, Dizzy Gillespie and many others stand...

Writing at Elsewhere: writingelsewhere/11230/3-shades-of-blue-by-james-kaplan/

FREEDOM, RHYTHM AND SOUND: Jazz with a raised fist and a copy of Malcolm X speeches in the other hand

...expression (although it had been around since Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz album of ‘60)....

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/3037/freedom-rhythm-and-sound-jazz-with-a-raised-fist-and-a-copy-of-malcolm-x-speeches-in-the-other-hand/

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: David Donaldson of Thrashing Marlin

...musicians you have read is . . .Harmolodics by Ornette Coleman. What I took from that book was any...

The Famous Elsewhere Questionnaire: thefamouselsewherequestionnaire/4446/the-famous-elsewhere-questionnaire-david-donaldson-of-thrashing-marlin/

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND, REDUX (2014): The Return Again of White Light/White Heat

...borders on the brilliant and is closer to Ornette Coleman free jazz as re-imagined by early...

Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/6070/the-velvet-underground-redux-2014-the-return-again-of-white-light-white-heat/

Charles Mingus: The Lost Album from Ronnie Scott's (Resonance/digital outlets)

...most of it's jazz roster the following year (Ornette Coleman, Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans and Mingus...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/10323/charles-mingus-the-lost-album-from-ronnie-scotts-resonance-digital-outlets/

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE JAZZ QUESTIONNAIRE: Phil Davison

...I started buying Coltrane’s last albums, Ornette Coleman, and anything I could find by Albert...

Tagged with: new zealand jazz |

The Famous Elsewhere Questionnaire: thefamouselsewherequestionnaire/6093/the-famous-elsewhere-jazz-questionnaire-phil-davison/

Primitive Art Group: Primitive Art Group 1981-1986 (Amish Records/digital outlets)

...somewhere between tropical Dixie swing and Ornette Coleman to end up like an untutored dance band...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/11315/primitive-art-group-primitive-art-group-1981-1986-amish-records-digital-outlets/

Dinah Washington: Embraceable You (1946)

...Nat King Cole, Doris Day and Judy Garland to Ornette Coleman, Charlie Parker and Art Tatum. Oh, and...

From the Vaults: fromthevaults/6757/dinah-washington-embraceable-you-1946/

COME STAI, NEW YORK?: Eat, drink and smoke 'em if you got 'em

...we want to be. I do some interviews (notably Ornette Coleman), see some gigs (in the original...

Personal Elsewhere: personal/10632/come-stai-new-york-eat-drink-and-smoke-em-if-you-got-em/

LESTER BOWIE REMEMBERED (1941-1999): Does humour belong in music?

...were inspired by the music of Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins and Art Blakey. Bowie...

Tagged with: charles mingus | lester bowie | miles davis | wynton marsalis |

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/2196/lester-bowie-remembered-1941-1999-does-humour-belong-in-music/

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE JAZZ QUESTIONNAIRE: Alan Brown

...Brian Eno on atmospheres, Bjork on vocals and Ornette Coleman to really take things somewhere else....

Tagged with: ambient music | new zealand jazz | new zealand music |

The Famous Elsewhere Questionnaire: thefamouselsewherequestionnaire/6950/the-famous-elsewhere-jazz-questionnaire-alan-brown/

Yoko Ono: Plastic Ono Band (1970)

...there's her free form rehearsal piece AOS with Ornette Coleman and his band in February '68, which...

Essential Elsewhere: essentialelsewhere/7706/yoko-ono-plastic-ono-band-1970/

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE HIGHLY PERSONAL QUESTIONNAIRE . . . Mark Lockett

...betrays the influence of and inspiration from Ornette Coleman and was written during lockdown in New...

The Famous Elsewhere Questionnaire: thefamouselsewherequestionnaire/9813/the-famous-elsewhere-highly-personal-questionnaire-mark-lockett/

MORE JAHZZ FROM THE KIWI UNDERGROUND (2024): Jahzz it is and jazz it be

...attention goes back to Volume 8: Two Pieces by Ornette Coleman. One being his best known piece Lonely...

Further Outwhere: further/11235/more-jahzz-from-the-kiwi-underground-2024-jahzz-it-is-and-jazz-it-be/

Frank Zappa: The Talking Asshole (1978)

Here's a rare and odd one, taken from the vinyl album You're A Hook: The 15th Anniversary of Dial-A-Poem (1968-1983), a record which came through the label Giorno Poetry Systems. The idea behind Dial-

From the Vaults: fromthevaults/3057/frank-zappa-the-talking-asshole-1978/

WOMAD NEW ZEALAND 2013: When the world comes to town

...Amy Winehouse, The Roots, Angelique Kidjo, Ornette Coleman, The Black Keys, Amadou and Mariam and...

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10 INFLUENTIAL JAZZ ALBUMS IN MY COLLECTION: The shape of me to come

...of my Facebook posts during May 2020 #1 Ornette Coleman: The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959)... ...But this got me back and as a consequence my Ornette Coleman collection is massive. I have written... ...Ornette Coleman extensively and it was one of the... ...back to my first entry because it is with Ornette Coleman (alto) and has Jaamaladeen Tacuma...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/9414/10-influential-jazz-albums-in-my-collection-the-shape-of-me-to-come/

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