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Check out today’s Section 7 daily offer: $7 Dave Matthews Band live performance CDs
Section 7 members can stay for a while– and take your pick from a collection of Dave Matthews Band live performances for just $7 each. And of course, free shipping too! Get the offer now!
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Ornette Coleman
Born March 9, 1930
Rarely does one person change the way we listen to music, but such a man is Ornette Coleman. Since the late 1950s, when he burst on the New York jazz scene with his legendary engagement at the Five Spot, Coleman has been teaching the world new ways of listening to music. His revolutionary musical ideas have been controversial, but today his enormous contribution to modern music is recognized throughout the world.
Coleman was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1930 and taught himself to play the saxophone and read music by the age of 14. One year later he formed his own band. Finding a troublesome existence in Fort Worth surrounded by racial segregation and poverty, he took to the road at age 19. During the 1950s while in Los Angeles, Ornette’s musical ideas were too controversial to find frequent public performance possibilities. He did, however, find a core of musicians who took to his musical concepts: trumpeters Don Cherry and Bobby Bradford, drummers Ed Blackwell and Billy Higgins, and bassist Charlie Haden.
In 1958, with the release of his debut album Something Else, it was immediately clear that Coleman had ushered in a new era in jazz history. This music, freed from the prevailing conventions of harmony, rhythm, and melody, often called ‘free jazz’ transformed the art form. Coleman called this concept Harmolodics. From 1959 through the rest of the 60s, Coleman released more than fifteen critically acclaimed albums on the Atlantic and Blue Note labels, most of which are now recognized as jazz classics. He also began writing string quartets, woodwind quintets, and symphonies based on Harmolodic theory.
In the early 1970s, Ornette traveled throughout Morocco and Nigeria playing with local musicians and interpreting the melodic and rhythmic complexities of their music into this Harmolodic approach. In 1975, seeking the fuller sound of an orchestra for his writing, Coleman constructed a new ensemble entitled Prime Time, which included the doubling of guitars, drums, and bass. Combining elements of ethnic and danceable sounds, this approach is now identified with a full genre of music and musicians.
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Complete article at:
http://www.ornettecoleman.com/
Must haves!
The Shape of Jazz to Come ~ Ornette Coleman
At the "Golden Circle" in Stockholm, Vol. 1 ~ Ornette Coleman
Sound Grammar ~ Ornette Coleman
MP@s
Ken Burns Jazz-Ornette Coleman ~ Ornette Coleman
Jam Session ~ Ornette Coleman;London Symphony Orchestra
Long Time No See ~ Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman
NX35 Music Conferette 2010 | March 11 – 14 | Denton, Texas
The NX35 Music Conferette is a walkable, 4-day music conference programmed in the heart of Denton, Texas’ central business district March 11-14, 2010. This year’s programming includes performances by the Flaming Lips, The Walkmen, Midlake, Health, The Black Angels, Neon Indian, StarDeath and White Dwarfs, Colourmusic, Carrie Rodriguez, Juliana Barwick, Icarus Himself, Jookabox, Pattern is Movement, legendary outsider musician Harvey Sid Fisher, among others, including a discussion with producer/musician/journalist Steve Albini, and a museum exhibition honoring the history of the 8-track tape curated by former Denton record store owner Bucks Burnett, and much, much more. Info available at nx35.com.
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