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A Week With Ornette Coleman

June 23, 2009
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A Week With Ornette Coleman

A series of recent live music performances at London’s Southbank Centre by–or inspired by–Ornette Coleman, a free jazz legend, was equal parts amazing, exhausting and surprising. Never dull. Having never seen Coleman perform live before, two things became clear to me by the end of the week: his playing oozes with the blues, and...

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Ornette Coleman’s Meltdown

June 11, 2009
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Ornette Coleman’s Meltdown

So why Coleman? Lots of reasons. Coleman is one of the founders of the “free jazz” genre (he prefers the term “Harmolodics”). He is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for music. Jazz at Lincoln Center has given Coleman his due props, and he’s got a Lifetime Achievement Grammy. Compared to more mainstream, conservative...

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