Ornette Coleman
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Old and New Dreams: Schoenberg Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 18 March 1980
JAZZ: OLD AND NEW DREAMS AT UCLA ...
James Blood Ulmer and Ornette Coleman: The Adventures of Captain Blood
Interview by Vivien Goldman, New Musical Express, 25 October 1980
"Being poor is not because money doesn’t exist and being rich doesn’t mean you know everything. But in America, art has more to do with ...
Ornette Coleman: Focus on Sanity
Interview by Brian Case, Melody Maker, 27 June 1981
The legendary innovator ORNETTE COLEMAN at the ballet. Up on his points in bright green tutu is Brian Case. ...
Will Punk Jazz Replace The Sounds Of Funk?
Overview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 15 November 1981
PUNK JAZZ? It's hard to imagine a more unlikely musical combination. Punk rock favors short, fast songs and disparages musical technique in favor of "anyone-can-do-it" ...
Ornette Coleman: Of Human Feelings (Antilles)
Review by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 8 May 1982
JUST ONE ORNETTO! ...
Ornette Coleman: On Human Feeling
Interview by Vivien Goldman, New Musical Express, 10 July 1982
Ornette Coleman's harmolodics brought about the musical change of the century. After his New York comeback last year, the legendary tenor man talked to Vivien ...
Ornette Coleman: This Maverick of Modern Jazz Doesn't Like to Be Pigeonholed
Interview by Gene Santoro, Pulse!, November 1986
MOST OF THE other horn-wielding giants who shook the foundations of jazz a generation ago — Coltrane, Dolphy, Ayler — are gone now. But Ornette ...
Ornette Coleman Explores Old, New
Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 1987
APPEARS WITH HIS TWO BANDS ...
Music Dreams Are Made Of: Ornette Coleman at Town Hall, New York
Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 1987
NEW YORK – Funny, the pent-up anticipation that usually wells up before a concert didn't hit me until a half hour before Ornette Coleman took ...
Jazz Critic's Choice: Ornette Coleman and Charlie Haden
Profile by Kirk Silsbee, LA CityBeat, 4 November 2004
IN 1954, IF you had stepped through the door at 309 N. Main St. in downtown L.A., you would've entered a netherworld of vice called ...
Ornette Coleman, 76, Manhattan
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, November 2006
ORNETTE COLEMAN is one of the true immortals. A metaphysician, philosopher and futurist as much as a revolutionary musician, he set melody free from it's ...
Interview by Andrew Purcell, Guardian, The, 29 June 2007
THIS AFTERNOON I will meet Ornette Coleman, the world's greatest living jazz musician. Coleman is an iconoclast's iconoclast, Lou Reed's hero, a saxophonist who plays ...
The Roots with Ornette Coleman: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by John Lewis, Guardian, The, 17 June 2009
IT SEEMS fitting that Philadelphia hip-hoppers the Roots should help kick off Ornette Coleman's Meltdown festival. ...
Retrospective by Don Snowden, Rock's Backpages, December 2010
AMAZING, ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. At 80 years old, Ornette Coleman is still capable of generating overt displays of outrage without doing anything more than playing his ...
see also James Blood Ulmer
see also Don Cherry
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