Joining such memorable events as Ornette’s week at Lincoln Center in 1997 and the celebration in his honor at Celebrate Brooklyn which was the last time he played in public and which is now documented in an incredible box set alongside the memorial held for him at Riverside Church and Wynton's own celebration of Ornette at Lincoln Center will be Ornette Coleman: Tomorrow is the Question, July 11–16 as part of their yearly indoor festival. There will be a four-part series honoring Ornette's work as a composer, innovator, and performer.
The evenings include a screening of Naked Lunch with live accompaniment by such giants as Ravi Coltrane, Henry Threadgill, Charente Moffatt, and Denard Coleman. Coleman will also be part of a Prime Time Reunion that will honor guitarist Bern Nix who sadly recently passed away and who had been a long time member of the original band. This night the members will include Joshua Redman,...
The evenings include a screening of Naked Lunch with live accompaniment by such giants as Ravi Coltrane, Henry Threadgill, Charente Moffatt, and Denard Coleman. Coleman will also be part of a Prime Time Reunion that will honor guitarist Bern Nix who sadly recently passed away and who had been a long time member of the original band. This night the members will include Joshua Redman,...
- 6/28/2017
- by steve dalachinsky
- www.culturecatch.com
A high point for U.S. manufacturing: Jazz genius Ornette Coleman
Shirley Clarke’s 1984 documentary ‘Ornette: Made in America’ is a portrait of music visionary and harmolodic high priest Ornette Coleman, a “free jazz” saxophonist and composer who for many decades bewildered even most free jazzers with his courageous, uncornered, acausal, ascendant, sentient sound. ‘Made In America’ provides a chance to see rare live performances of Coleman’s legendary 70’s & 80’s band Prime Time, and goes as far as could be expected in revealing a personality that will always remain, as with any wise seer, fundamentally inscrutable to mere mortals. Coleman doesn’t fit into orthodox narratives of jazz’s evolution; more Messiaen than Mingus, he has always stood apart, beyond. Or as Coleman, with his signature humility, explains, “there’s no up and down — there’s only out.”
Renowned critic Gary Giddins once wrote that, “Nothing in jazz is...
Shirley Clarke’s 1984 documentary ‘Ornette: Made in America’ is a portrait of music visionary and harmolodic high priest Ornette Coleman, a “free jazz” saxophonist and composer who for many decades bewildered even most free jazzers with his courageous, uncornered, acausal, ascendant, sentient sound. ‘Made In America’ provides a chance to see rare live performances of Coleman’s legendary 70’s & 80’s band Prime Time, and goes as far as could be expected in revealing a personality that will always remain, as with any wise seer, fundamentally inscrutable to mere mortals. Coleman doesn’t fit into orthodox narratives of jazz’s evolution; more Messiaen than Mingus, he has always stood apart, beyond. Or as Coleman, with his signature humility, explains, “there’s no up and down — there’s only out.”
Renowned critic Gary Giddins once wrote that, “Nothing in jazz is...
- 9/4/2012
- by Ryan Brown
- IONCINEMA.com
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