Ornette Coleman
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Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 7 May 1966
It's Coleman At His Best ...
Ornette Coleman: Pauley Ballroom, University of California, Berkeley CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 29 May 1967
Coleman Gets a Poor Hearing ...
Ornette Coleman: Hearst Greek Theatre, Berkeley CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 13 August 1968
Like a Scene Out of a Surrealist Film ...
Blue Note Records: Young, gifted... and Blue
Discography by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 2 September 1978
Chris Welch examines the legacy of Blue Note, the pioneering label currently being re-promoted ...
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 ...
Profile by Don Snowden, L.A. Weekly, 20 March 1980
TEN YEARS ago my curiosity was piqued by some favorable jazz reviews in Rolling Stone. (This, of course, was an era when RS recommendations meant ...
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 AN 2001)
Review by Brian Case, Melody Maker, 8 May 1982
Sounds in motion ...
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 ...
Jamaaladeen Tacuma: The Bass Electric
Interview by Don Snowden, L.A. Weekly, 31 May 1984
PREDICTING THAT Jamaaladeen Tacuma will be one of the premier bassists of the decade will not get you into the Guinness Book of World Records ...
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 ...
Ornette Coleman: In perfect harmolodics
Interview by David Toop, The Times, 30 September 1995
Jazz giant Ornette Coleman would like to teach the world to sing — if it understood him. David Toop reports ...
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: Barbican, London
Preview by John Lewis, Barbican show programme, 2 May 2005
Programme notes for Barbican Hall performance of Ornette Coleman — Alto sax Denardo Coleman — Drums Greg Cohen — Bass Tony Falanga — Bass ...
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, The Guardian, 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 ...
Interview by John Lewis, Metro, 6 July 2007
ORNETTE COLEMAN's visits to London tend to be rather special events. Over the past four decades, the legendary saxophonist has been joined on stage by ...
Ornette Coleman: Mister Anything Goes
Profile and Interview by John Lewis, The Guardian, 10 June 2009
He's taken jazz where it has never gone before — playing with pipers, punks and divas. As Ornette Coleman arrives in Britain, Patti Smith, Moby ...
The Roots with Ornette Coleman: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by John Lewis, The Guardian, 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 ...
All That Is My Own: Nico at Steve Paul's The Scene, October 1967
Book Excerpt by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike, 'You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone' (Faber), July 2021
Excerpted from Jennifer Otter Bickerdike's You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone: The Biography of Nico, published this month by Faber ...
see also James "Blood" Ulmer
see also Don Cherry
see also Jamaaladeen Tacuma
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