Ornette Coleman: Classic Or Dud?

yeah a bummer if true, but ornette is 85....
guess i just hope that these people aren't (knowingly at least) taking advantage of an aging free jazz legend

Maybe they're in cahoots with the guy that stole Cecil Taylor's Kyoto Prize money.

Good stuff on Denardo's Twitter feed. For instance:

Denardo Coleman
‏@denardocoleman

The Official Ornette Coleman Facebook page has been launched!
https://www.facebook.com/officialornettecoleman

And can't resist this:

Denardo Coleman
‏@denardocoleman

Ali Coleman (grandson), Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Denardo Coleman

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BrGGUBFCIAAUdqL.jpg:large

Sonny looks like Johnny Cash

ornette always has the best suits.

sonny looks like he should be in the matrix! almost looks like a leather shirt.

I'd really love for Denardo to write a book.

this hurts

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/12/arts/music/ornette-coleman-jazz-saxophonist-dies-at-85-obituary.html?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0

OH NO!

oh fuck it. ornette, you were the best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TJmk-2huoI

first ornette piece i ever heard :-(

If I were to choose a favourite piece of jazz music, it would almost certainly be Lonely Woman.

You are kidding me? What a day, RIP Ornette :(((

What a great body of work. RIP

RIP

;_;

RIP

Goodbye, Ornette.

the best -- we were all lucky that he shared so much with us.

(posted this to the obit thread, meant to post it here)

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-ornette-coleman-dead-20150611-column.html

This bears repeating, loudly and frequently:

“Now I didn’t call the music I was doing ‘free jazz,’” Coleman told the Tribune in 2003. “Someone [at the Atlantic record label] named it that, put a Jackson Pollack painting on it and called it ‘Free Jazz.’”

Thank you, Ornette, for everything.

holy shit, he obviously wasn't young, but I was not prepared for this. I love those Atlantic albums so much. Such a great and original musician.

RIP Ornette, decent innings but always sad to see such a brilliant musician pass.

RIP beautiful dude. v glad I got to see him play a few years ago at the Masonic Hall, incredible stuff.

more like ornot aliveman

this one trips me out, there's basically a full-on funk breakdown in the middle (in 1960!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=405MdvmBoAU

starting when the trumpet comes in at around 2:50

i LOVE the (not sure if terminology is right) coda thing (around 5:38)that brings una muy bonita to an end. a moment of pure genius imho

man, my facebook is wall to wall ornette. it's nothing but ornette clips and one video of a dolphin and a kitten.

sad that a dolphin and a kitten died

Sorry for lack of visual interest, but this was provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group, so won't be taken down, I hope. Ornette lives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFCWU0n1jLE

I was at that show. The feeling in the room immediately before, and when, Ornette came onstage gives me goosebumps now, thinking about it.

Saw him at the Barbican probbaly ten years ago - lots of warmth, no imcomprehension.

:-(

This is fun: Ornette w Lou Reed and combo, on takes of Lou's "Guilty," with the words changing a little each time, along with the sax and one of the guitars, bass a bit less so. For total effect, my faves are the first and last versions---listen on headphones if you got 'em, but voice, sax and drums, or drum, come through even on tiny laptop speakers.
http://www.loureed.com/guilty/

WKCR is all-Ornette through next Wednesday:
https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/story/ornette-coleman-memorial-broadcast

Looks like xyzzzz went to the same gig I went to. Ornette also came on stage at the end of the Charlie Haden gig, but sadly they didn't play together that evening. Dancing in my head, always. RIP

http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/179479_185726988128819_3151412_n_zpsi29np0kb.jpg

RIP, he did good.

=(

Along with James Brown, a legend I never saw live simply because I mixed up my dates.

I used his Free Jazz album during a presentation for a Buddhist class. I think the idea of Now! might be described on the liner notes. Powerful music.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=798627630174468&fref=nf

http://www.freejazzblog.org/2015/06/ornette-coleman.html

I have two Ornette Coleman stories.

1) In 2003 or 2004, I saw him on 7th Avenue & 36th or 37th Street, near his apartment, & ran across the street in total fanboy mode. He asked me if I played an instrument, & I told him I’d played the trumpet for awhile, but given it up to stay focused on writing. He said, “You should have kept at it, ‘cause you can make the same mistakes either way.”

2) When I interviewed him at his apartment in 2009, two ladies who lived in the building stopped by to visit. There was no occasion that I knew of, but they’d brought chocolate cake, and Ornette cut me a slice. It was great. Before I left, he gave me autographed sheet music for two pieces, and signed my BEAUTY IS A RARE THING booklet.

Great stories both

RIP

yes, great stories

much love and good feeling to ornette's loved ones

Classic

this is making me very sad

i wonder if there will be a tribute show somewhere in chicago

if anyone knows, please let me know.

i've probably listened to ornette as much or more than any other musician in the past decade

1) In 2003 or 2004, I saw him on 7th Avenue & 36th or 37th Street, near his apartment, & ran across the street in total fanboy mode. He asked me if I played an instrument, & I told him I’d played the trumpet for awhile, but given it up to stay focused on writing. He said, “You should have kept at it, ‘cause you can make the same mistakes either way.”

So awesome.

RIP to the best.

2) When I interviewed him at his apartment in 2009, two ladies who lived in the building stopped by to visit. There was no occasion that I knew of, but they’d brought chocolate cake, and Ornette cut me a slice.

I love this one too, what a beautiful memory to have of someone.

Sadness w the gladness here: on Ornette last summer, at celebration of his music in Prospect Park:
http://robertchristgau.com/xg/music/coleman-14.php