Search results for "Ornette Coleman"

Ornette Coleman: Faces and Places (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music September 18, 08

Compositionally, "Faces and Places" is of a type with such earlier start-and-stop, bebop-ish Ornette Coleman tunes as...

Ornette Coleman: Dawn (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music September 18, 08

A ballad, Ornette-style. The aching theme meanders, never resolving or coming to rest exactly where you think it shou...

Ornette Coleman: Snowflakes and Sunshine (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music September 18, 08

Ten-and-a-half minutes of high-energy, wholly improvised Free Jazz, "Snowflakes and Sunshine" features Ornette employ...

Ornette Coleman: The Riddle (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music September 18, 08

"The Riddle" is an almost 10-minute collective free-bop improvisation with a brief, don't-blink-or-you'll-miss-it mel...

Ornette Coleman: Spelling the Alphabet (Rating: 82/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

Ornette Coleman has worked with a handful of guitarists during his career, including Jim Hall, Bern Nix, Charlie Elle...

Ornette Coleman: First Take (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music June 11, 08

It is certainly no coincidence that the development of the rhythm section coincides with the progression of the great...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HISTORIC RHYTHM SECTIONS

            The Rhythm Section, artwork by Suzanne Cerny ...

Ornette Coleman: The Garden of Souls (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 24, 08

It seems almost an article of faith among critics that New York Is Now! and Love Call are among Ornette Coleman's les...

Ornette Coleman: The Empty Foxhole (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music September 18, 08

If this music had been made by anyone other than Ornette Coleman, it would've been laughed at or dismissed out of han...

Ornette Coleman: Airborne (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music September 24, 08

"Airborne" is in many ways what listeners in the late '60s had come to expect from Ornette Coleman: a tuneful, sequen...

Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman: Song X (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music October 31, 07

In what can only be considered a musical perfect storm, Ornette Coleman, Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden, Jack DeJohnette ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL PAT METHENY PERFORMANCES

Guitarist Pat Metheny has recorded with so many musicians, and in so many different musical contexts, that it was a...

Ornette Coleman: Bird Food (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 29, 08

Being highly influenced by melody and lyricism is usually not a disadvantage, except when listening to the music...

Ornette Coleman: What Reason Could I Give? (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 01, 08

Ornette Coleman's groups in the 1960s and early '70s that included Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, Ed Blackwell, Billy Hig...

This track review is included in: DESERT ISLAND DOZENS: BEN ALLISON

Ben Allison, recently featured in an interview and concert review on jazz.com, now participates in our "Desert Islan...

Ornette Coleman: Sound Gravitation (Rating: 81/100) posted in Music September 18, 08

Ornette Coleman took a step or two in a new direction with The Empty Foxhole. Whether or not it was a direction ...

Ornette Coleman: Beauty is a Rare Thing (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music December 16, 08

John Millington Synge once noted that for poetry to become human again, it must first learn to be brutal. Forget for...

Ornette Coleman: Ramblin' (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 31, 07

"He plays all the notes Bird missed," some fool says about a character modeled on Ornette Coleman in Thomas Pync...

Ornette Coleman: Lonely Woman (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music December 09, 07

We still haven't come to grips with the turbulence unleashed by Free Jazz during the period that started with the Age...

Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman: Endangered Species (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music September 13, 08

The opening remark by Pat Metheny's Synclavier guitar and Ornette Coleman's alto sax is eerie and foreboding. When th...

Ornette Coleman: Broad Way Blues (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

When Ornette Coleman burst onto the national scene with his first album in 1958, his unorthodox style created great c...

Gunther Schuller (featuring Ornette Coleman): Abstraction (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

"Abstraction," explained its composer, combines "the most advanced [circa 1960] stylistic manifestations of both jazz...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL 'THIRD STREAM' PERFORMANCES

A few years after longtime Metropolitan Opera French hornist Gunther Schuller assisted in Miles Davis's Birth of the ...

Ornette Coleman & Joachim Kühn: Faxing (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music March 11, 08

Ornette Coleman seldom played or recorded with piano players. Here, he does so in duet with a German pianist, live in...

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