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Scott LaFaro - Pieces of Jade
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Bassist Scott LaFaro was like a comet streaking across the jazz skyline. Cut down in an automobile accident at the age of only 25, he was still able to accomplish quite a bit, performing with Bill Evans and Paul Motian in a fondly remembered trio and also working with experimental progressives like Ornette Coleman. Comment?
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Sunday Perspective: 2009 is over. But is it history?
... IBM 1401) and the emergence of the birth-control pill. Herman Khan's ominous lectures on nuclear war and Ornette Coleman's revolutionary jazz improvisations set the rhythms of an era marked by, as Kaplan puts it, "the twin prospects of infinite ... Comment?
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The Nice Guy Trio: Here Comes the Nice Guy Trio
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... originals together with gleeful arrangements of a tune by Charles Mingus ("Fables of Faubus") and one by Ornette Coleman ("Folk Tale"). (The latter occasionally sounds like a demented practice session, which Coleman might well have approved.) The ... Comment?
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Evan Parker Residency with McPhee, Shipp, Zorn, Courvoisier, et al. at The Stone, NYC
... random slaps of cymbal and kit, while Parker gave a possible meaning to that definition-resistant concept of Ornette Coleman-harmolodics-by breaking up melodic fragments into a kind of sonic schrapnel. The set with trombonist George Lewis was ... Comment?
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... in attracting many of jazz's greatest legends (from Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie and Count Basie to Ornette Coleman) to their small stage. However, his determination was unwavering and his negotiating skills formidable. In the early 1960s he was ... Comment?
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J.D. CONSIDINE W hile some jazz fans celebrated the 50th anniversary of "Jazz's Greatest Year" - 1959 produced Miles Davis's Kind of Blue , the Dave Brubeck Quartet's epochal hit Take Five , John Coltrane's Giant Steps , and Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz to Come - others spent the year lamenting the music's seemingly imminent demise. Comment?
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... 's John Zorn -directed club The Stone last January, the New Yorker threw some weighty comparisons around: Ornette Coleman , Albert Ayler , Charlie Haden , the Art Ensemble of Chicago . That spirit of free-jazz exploration comes from over a decade ... Comment?
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... John Zorn-directed club The Stone last January, the New Yorker threw some weighty comparisons around: Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, Charlie Haden, the Art Ensemble of Chicago. That spirit of free-jazz exploration comes from over a decade and a half ... Comment?
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Owen McNally: Daniel Levin Trio At Firehouse 12 In New Haven
... his architectural concerns about foundational forms as he and his chamber mates improvise freely. While Ornette Coleman -like free jazz is Levin's prime time turf, he also happily incorporates elements from other genres, including folk music . Most ... Comment?
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The 6th Penang Island Jazz Festival: December 3-6, 2009
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... Hart and Jerome Kern torch numbers, the set pleasingly included numbers by Tadd Dameron , Horace Silver and Ornette Coleman 's "The Blessing." Not many put lyrics to Ornette Coleman's music, and this typified the personal approach Nicolle takes to ... Comment?
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Oscar Feldman: Oscar e Familia
... Not since the fire of Jackie McLean , the cool breeze of Lee Konitz , Eric Dolphy 's rhythmic advances, Ornette Coleman 's Harmolodic theories, and Steve Coleman 's mBase concepts, has someone attempted to create a new language for that instrument. ... Comment?
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The second track from Tomorrow Is the Question -- Ornette Coleman's 1959 wake-up call to the fusty hard bop movement -- is a medium tempo blues, "Tears Inside." After the statement of the tune's two-beat, countrified-bebop theme, trumpeter Don Cherry plays a solo that -- for all its frail beauty and general adherence to modern jazz's harmonic ... Comment?
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The One Ensemble & Sarah Kenchington, 'Dummy Jim'
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... this fiercely individualistic is not for everybody, but if a deranged, but skillfully harnessed, mash-up of Ornette Coleman, Harry Partch, Dexy's Midnight Runners, and Captain Beefheart sounds at all appealing, this is a pretty great place to start. ... Comment?
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Big Band December, pt. 3: Piano giant McCoy Tyner celebrates his birthday at Symphony Center
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... could have headed downtown to the Harris Theater, where his music along with that of Miles Davis and Ornette Coleman formed the Chicago Jazz Ensemble's program Honoring 1959 (as reported here ). Or they could have headed to SPACE in Evanston, where ... Comment?
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... mid-tempo "I'm So Blue," and takes up soprano for Aran's "Riva," a Trane-like waltz. Cohen's solo on {{Ornette Coleman 's "The Blessing" is a burst of lucidity, the album's improvisational centerpiece. But it's the subtle textures and tone ... Comment?
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A Laptop Joins the Band as a Boon and Interpreter
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... - with melodic free improvisation on grooves and vamps, the kind of jazz that descends from Paul Bley and Ornette Coleman . In between there was a more traditional kind of jazz too, with chord changes and steady swing. He wove this all together into ... Comment?
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Charnett Moffett: Improvisational Artistry
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... of improvised music, moving from the mainstream lodgings of Marsalis to under the aegis of the free-spirited Ornette Coleman . He's recorded over the years with the likes of McCoy Tyner , Herbie Hancock , Tony Williams , Stanley Jordan , Pharoah ... Comment?
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Five Thoughts On Seeing Sonny Rollins In Concert
... part of a century now. In this relatively short life of mine, I've been blessed to see a few such examples: Ornette Coleman at Carnegie Hall, Cecil Taylor at Jazz at Lincoln Center (hoo boy), Dave Brubeck at Newport. Still, the idea of going to a ... Comment?
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What's going on Friday?
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... new video for "A Whole Lot Better" below. Jack White recorded two new songs with the band Smoke Fairies . Ornette Coleman tops Amazon's list of " 100 Greatest Jazz Albums of All Time ". Richard Buckner plays Mercury Lounge on Saturday . Black Sheep ... Comment?
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Blues & Chaos: The Music Writings of Robert Palmer
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... is the diversity of Palmer's writing style, as rich as his subjects and evoked in unparalleled studies of Ornette Coleman, Richard Hell, and Tom Verlaine and uncompromising portraits like "The Devil and Jerry Lee Lewis." Like the critic himself, ... Comment?
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