Ornette Coleman News Archives

One rad thing about being quite possibly the most revered jazz musician alive is you can play whatever you want, in terms of both songs and instrumentation, which explains why Ornette Coleman, holding forth in Jazz at Lincoln Center's gorgeous Rose Theater, plays saxophone, trumpet, and violin in the first two minutes of his first song, "Following ...

$69.50-$89.50. 8pm. 2. AFE Society duo Nitin and Terence Kissner may be rooted in techno, but theya TMve bumped up the mutant house factor in their bookings, making British DJ/producer Matt Tolfrey an ideal guest.

What can it mean that a pre-eminent jazz player drew barely half a house to Massey Hall? The economy hasn't had that kind of effect on A-list headliners in other genres; and $69.50 to $89.50 is not an unreasonable ticket for a pioneer like Ornette Coleman.

It's time once again for one of those gratuitous plugs for StLJN's sibling site Heliocentric Worlds , which features a different online music video every day, drawn from genres including jazz, blues, soul, fuink classic rock, prog rock and experimental.

London's annual Meltdown Festival is one of the U.K.'s hippest events. A specially selected curator invites artists he or she wishes to showcase, typically the more adventurous, the better.

By default and by design, there is no firm center of avant-garde jazz culture. Its music can be freely improvised or densely plotted, ecstatic or brooding, concussive or tranquil.

YOSHI'S: I've been out on the West Coast catching some fantastic music. On the Jazz side, the highlight has to be Yoshi's in San Francisco on Fillmore.

I'm interviewing Sonny Rollins later today for a Philadelphia Inquirer feature to run on Sunday, September 20.

Julius Hemphill was one of the unsung heroes of modern jazz. Coming out of Fort Worth in the generation following Ornette Coleman, Hemphill moved to St.

These days, it's hard to imagine that a jazz album could be both avant-garde and a commercial blockbuster at the same time.

Martin Longley also currently writes for the BBC Music, Brooklyn Vegan, Spannered and Stirrer websites, The Wire and Jazzwise magazines, and Metro newspaper.

Steve Penhollow Courtesy photo Former city resident Jim Hobbs, right, launched the Fully Celebrated Orchestra in 1987.

He was a widely admired, veteran bop pianist when the new free-jazz ideas of Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor and others led him to explore the new music in the early 1960s.

For its 30th birthday last year the Chicago Jazz Festival threw one hell of a party, opening with Sonny Rollins, closing with Ornette Coleman, and presenting commissioned work along the way from four undisputed heavyweights - pianist Vijay Iyer, trumpeter Dave Douglas, bandleader Gerald Wilson, and trombonist T.S. Galloway.

When Ornette Coleman promoted this concert in December 1962, he was already in the midst of a long withdrawal from the public stage.