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RIP Ornette Coleman
#21792342 - 06/11/15 09:46 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Today a jazz legend has passed: Ornette Coleman, arguably the father of free jazz. He was 85.
http://pitchfork.com/news/59916-ornette-coleman-has-died/
Damn shame, Ornette was an insanely talented dude. His music is admittedly not for everyone but if you can get into largely unstructured, extremely expressive improvisational music, you'd probably find a lot to appreciate in his records.
Any fans?
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I am a fan and have a few records. Quite enjoy his work/harmonies with Don Cherry. From my understanding, a lot of the greats looked up to him. This is opinion but I feel he was in the place where Coltrane and Davis (to an extent, before he went fully into electrofunk) wanted to go.
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Here's a short video you might like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAYHoKzx7do
and a comment I read from that video:
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I am forever grateful to Mr. Ornette Coleman because he opened my mind, eyes and ears to not only music but to all things in life. When I first heard him back in the early 60's, I quickly dismissed what I heard as noise and thought he was a delusional wannabe jazz musician making god awful noises with his toy like plastic alto sax. But for some mysterious reason, I kept finding myself being drawn back and wanting to hear more. As hard as I consciously tried, I could not shake Ornette Coleman from my inner soul. I fought it and fought it, but like the Cole Porter song, it got under my skin and has stayed there forever. RIP Mr. Coleman and thank you.
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Re: RIP Ornette Coleman [Re: WScott]
#21798527 - 06/12/15 04:58 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Thank you man I'll check it out when I get a sec!
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am a fan and have a few records. Quite enjoy his work/harmonies with Don Cherry. From my understanding
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Re: RIP Ornette Coleman [Re: wangel]
#21918315 - 07/09/15 07:36 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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wangel said: am a fan and have a few records. Quite enjoy his work/harmonies with Don Cherry. From my understanding
Yes, a lot of his 50s-60s work with Don Cherry is really phenomenal. Glad to see another fan, welcome to the Shroomery btw
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lol, he just literally copied what I wrote.
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Re: RIP Ornette Coleman [Re: WScott]
#21923320 - 07/10/15 06:59 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Hahaha what the fuck I wasn't paying close enough attention. Some sort of bot I'm guessing?
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"the epitome of blues" ~ random youtube comment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dou3aSZmEg
1959 The Year That Changed Jazz . Play at 28m10s , 49m38s for the Ornette Coleman segments and audioclips of Ornette speaking about music.
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