Ornette Coleman News

 
John Abercrombie: Within a Song
Financial Times
By Mike Hobart At first, the soft rhythms and gentle tones of Abercrombie's guitar wash languidly into the background, somewhat at odds with the sixties inspirations he pays homage to – Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane are among those name-checked.


 
Bargemusic: Uccello
New Yorker
This concert offers music by Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, David Sanford (a première), and Billy Strayhorn, among others. (Fulton Ferry Landing, Brooklyn. For tickets and full schedule, see bargemusic.org.) This Week: Links to articles and Web-only ...


 
Jazz drummer and 'genius' grant recipient brings trio to St. Louis
STLtoday.com
Jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman famously said that the difference between jazz and rock all comes down to one musical dynamic. In rock, Coleman argued, the band plays with the drummer; in jazz, the drummer plays with the band.


 
Free jazz concert series in Hollywood to include Poncho Sanchez
Los Angeles Times
By Chris Barton Not to be confused with an announcement that various ensembles will be covering Ornette Coleman's landmark "Free Jazz" recording (though that would be pretty spectacular), free jazz concerts will return to the elephant-adorned complex ...


 
Wall Street Journal
Jazz's Scene-Stealing Synthesizer
Wall Street Journal
She has contributed memorably to the catalogs of several towering figures, including alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman and the late singer Betty Carter. She has worked on equal footing with nearly every standard-bearing bassist-drummer tandem (she ...


 
New York Times
Frederick J. Brown, Painter of Musicians, Dies at 67
New York Times
His subjects included signature figures of 20th-century American music, among them Thelonious Monk, BB King, Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, Ray Charles, Ornette Coleman, Lionel Hampton and Jelly Roll Morton.
Painter Frederick J. Brown Dies at 67GalleristNY

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Surviving and thriving
Ottawa Citizen
The instructors included pianist Evans and drummer Max Roach. Among Kuhn's classmates was Ornette Coleman, the free-jazz saxophonist whom Kuhn calls jazz's last innovator. “There really isn't anything new that's come since Ornette,” he asserts.

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