Ornette Coleman died today.
He was really important to me, a lot of the music I love springs directly and indirectly from his music. I didn’t know he was from Fort Worth until now, so he’s another I dissed by omission in my Texas musicians thread. Sorry about that, sir.
See ya man, I’ll miss ya.
My world is less wonderful today.
RIP, Mr. Coleman. Thank you for sharing your talents with us all.
Shit.
I admit I don’t play his records very often – call me a Moldy Fig if you must – but he was one of the great innovators…
With Chris Lee, that makes two deaths today of people I cared about. Gonna be another one before midnight.
Sorry to see him go. Even though free jazz has never been something I could appreciate, I respect the effort he made to add to the jazz genre.
This is the one tune I associate with Ornette that I really like. He and Coltrane broke the same ground at roughly the same time and I appreciated Trane’s path more.
I sent the mods a note asking them to merge this into scabpicker’s thread.
Amazingly, he won the Pulitzer Prize for an album from 2006, when he was 76! That’s awesome.
Merged duplicate threads
Thanks, ITD.
Represents the best and worst of free jazz.
A unique voice.
Y’know what I hate about Coleman and Coltrane both? (sorry, Ornette)
Ugly fucking tone. While I appreciate that they were both forward-looking and taking jazz in new directions, I would rather listen to a guy like Ben Webster just because of that fat rich tenor tone he got.
Sonny Rollins. There’s a guy who’s the equal of Coleman and Coltrane as a pioneer. AND he has beautiful tone.
Sonny Rollins isn’t ever going to die, because I won’t let him.
From 1965, my favorite moment of his: Faces and Places.
I respect his spirit and innovation a lot more than I liked his music; but damn, I really respected him.
Thanks Ornette.