This year's Meltdown Festival - curated by American jazz legend Ornette Coleman - has had the final layer of ink added to its line-up. The man himself will be making a number of appearances throughout the festival with artists such as The Roots, Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band, Patti Smith and Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra.
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For nine days in June, free jazz legend and icon of the avant-garde Ornette Coleman will take over Southbank Centre’s riverside venues and spaces as the 16th director of Meltdown.
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Pulitzer Prize winning jazz composer Ornette Coleman has announced a new tour this Spring. Tickets are pretty expensive, but you would be supporting one of the greatest jazz musicians on earth. It's no secret that Coleman collapsed on stage at Bonaroo last year, so the proceeds from ticket sales will hopefully help the alto-saxist to stay in tip top shape and not overextend himself. Here are...
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The great alto jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman collapsed from heat stroke during his performance Sunday (June 17) at the Bonnaroo fest in Manchester, Tenn., according to Billboard.In the midst of a song, Coleman, 77, collapsed on stage due to heat exhaustion, according to his publicist. Coleman was taken to the local Coffey County Hospital for treatment, and was released later that night. Col...
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Alto-sax legend and free-jazz pioneer, Ornette Coleman received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize In Music for Sound Grammar. Coleman is widely recognized as the pioneer of the free-jazz style with his major-label debut album in 1959, The Shape Of Jazz To Come on Atlantic Recordings. Nearly 50 years later, he recorded the album that would win the prestigous prize : his 2006 release, Sound Grammar. Acco...
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Last Friday night at the Schnitz in Portland Oregon was an absolute treat. It was fantastic to see the amazing Ornette in real life in Portland town.The band played a perfect compliment to Ornette's skronky jazz and they all seemed to be having fun. The music was pure magic and I'm not able to explain it any better than that. Ornette possesses a graceful dignity and presence of self that is a...
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"Destination Out!":http://destination-out.com/?p=88 has a great piece written by Ethan Iverson and a coupla tracks from Crisis.What a great man and important composer/musician. Mad props. Anyone else catch him on the Grammy's? Beautiful, sirs and ma'ams, beautiful."Do The Math":http://thebadplus.typepad.com/has a nice tribute, including "Tentacle Monroe," a poem comprised solely of anagrams...
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...from the Get Loose or Get Lost Dept....Everyone's heard outrageous tales of people paying their dues while trying to make their way in the world. Out here in L.A., there's no shortage of those because everyone's on the make in this town so, at any given moment, you're bound to run into somebody who'll do whatever it takes to get them one step closer to their desired goal-- whatever the cost....
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Free Jazz, in this case, is not the classic Ornette Coleman album or the style pioneered in the 60s. I wanted to blog about the jazz that was free, as in no cost. Specifically, podcasts.As a commuter (146 miles round trip), myiPod has been indispensable to my sanity. It helps drown out the mixture of traffic noise, conversation and snoring one gets in a vanpool setting. In addition to the song...
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Ornette Coleman continues to enjoy many honors. It's all well deserved and overdue, especially considering all the scorn he suffered during the early years of his career. Who would have thought the he would have recieved a lifetime achievement award from the Grammys?A friend of ours, Leroy Downs (aka The Jazz Cat), was able to hang out with Ornette at his New York loft and conduct an interview...
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CHANGE OF THE CENTURY is a hell of an album. It was recorded in 1959, but sounds as fresh and interesting today as it did then. Ornette Coleman's great quartet, with Billy Higgins, Charlie Haden and Don Cherry, are at the height of their powers. In the original liner notes Ornette says, "I don't tell the members of my group what to do. I want them to play what they hear in the piece for themsel...
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A few days ago Our fine community at large was propositioned for some happy music. I quote "carmensandiego's":http://mog.com/carmensandiego post (really a plea) here;"*Does anyone out there have a collection of songs that just make you smile? Things are kind of low on this end – death has struck again – and I could really use some new (upbeat) music to lift my spirits.*":http://mog.com/carmens
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...from the Get Loose or Get Lost Dept....Everyone's heard outrageous tales of people paying their dues while trying to make their way in the world. Out here in L.A., there's no shortage of those because everyone's on the make in this town so, at any given moment, you're bound to run into somebody who'll do whatever it takes to get them one step closer to their desired goal-- whatever the cost....
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