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5 days ago · By Glide. 65 years ago today (5/22/59), saxophonist Ornette Coleman recorded his landmark jazz LP The Shape of Jazz To Come over the course of one day. This was Coleman’s third album, released on 10/22 via Atlantic Records in 1959.
5 days ago · March 14, 2017. A short history of…”Lonely Woman” (Ornette Coleman, 1959) by Matt Micucci. In an interview with French philosopher Jacques Derrida, saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman told the story of an encounter he had while working in a big department store before becoming a musician.
1 day ago · Hawkins continued to perform and record until his death on May 19, 1969. 7. Sidney Bechet. ... Ornette Coleman, born in 1930, was a groundbreaking American jazz saxophonist, composer, and ...
5 days ago · The New Music of Ornette Coleman. The set comes with newly remastered audio and a 32-page booklet with archival photos and extensive new liner notes. CD and digital versions will also be available. Pre-order here. Brooklyn Conservatory of Music Announces Year Two of Jazz Leaders Fellowship: Applications are now open through May 15 for the ...
5 days ago · Titled Celebrate Ornette, the results have been collected in a box set encompassing three CDs, four 128-gram vinyl records and two DVDs. An accompanying book features essays from Denardo Coleman and Ornette disciple James Blood Ulmer, among others, as well as plenty of photos of the iconic saxophonist.
5 days ago · The Amougies Festival in Belgium, 1969. The year is 1969. Rock music hits its golden age and yet it is still very much of an Anglo-only phenomenon. The British invasion only happened in the States. Elsewhere, that weird music is seen, at best, as an Anglophone oddity and, at worst, as a symbol of its imperialistic decadence.
5 days ago · Ten vinyl records. *Ornette Coleman, "New York is now!" (Blue Note BST84287, Stereo), U.S. 1968. *Wayne Shorter with, among others, Herbie Hancock, "Schizophrenia" (Blue Note BST84297, Stereo), U.S. 1969. *Charlie Mingus, "Tonight at Noon" (Atlantic SD1416), U.S. 1964.
