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Tag: Ornette Coleman

  • 1959 and All That

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    There was a documentary a while ago on 1959 as the year that changed jazz for ever. It focused on Miles’ Kind of Blue, Brubeck’s Time Out, Mingus’ Ah Um and Coleman’s Shape of Jazz to Come. Of course, jazz had pretty much become set as bebop/hard bop, and there was a desire to explore…

  • Priceless and Free

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    So Ornette Coleman has finished his Chronology. Rather than doing a standard obit, I think it would be more interesting to chat about what he did, which was and remains the subject of much confusion. WARNING: May contain unsubstantiated personal opinions. His approach has come to be known as “free jazz”, but that’s not really…