Ornette Coleman

Ornette Coleman ( born March 9, 1930 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American jazz musician (especially old, and occasionally tenor saxophone, trumpet and violin ) and composer. Ornette Coleman is a pioneer of free jazz and is the creator of " Harmolodie ".

• 3.1 Important plates
• 3.2 All recordings under his own name

Life

Self-study

Coleman taught himself from 1944, the saxophone playing and reading music itself. At age 19, he tore from home to escape the vicious circle of poverty and racial discrimination in the American South. In Los Angeles to Ornette Coleman struck by with odd jobs and brought in 1950, in turn, self-study harmony and music theory at. Here he developed his based on the logic of mathematics musical concepts and found some players in Don Cherry (trumpet ), Bobby Bradford (trumpet ), Walter Norris (piano), Ed Blackwell ( drums), Billy Higgins (drums) and Charlie Haden ( bass). The latter two, he met in 1958 in the band of Paul Bley (piano), who became extended by Coleman and Cherry before she was Bleys exit to Ornette Coleman Quartet.

Together they toured small clubs in Los Angeles. Your first record deal they received only by chance, because a record company bought one of Coleman's arrangements, but found no one except the group that this could also play. With the assistance of John Lewis, he joined in May 1959 for Atlantic Records. After a subsequent exposure to the famous " Five Spot " in New York in 1959, the Ornette Coleman Quartet was certainly recognition of the jazz scene.

Free Jazz / Harmolodic

Together with Eric Dolphy (bass clarinet), Don Cherry (pocket trumpet), Freddie Hubbard (trumpet ), Scott LaFaro ( bass), Charlie Haden ( bass), Billy Higgins (drums) and Ed Blackwell (drums ) - ie a double - quartet - in 1960 he took his most famous album " Free Jazz: A Collective improvisation " on. This album had a leading role in the development of atonal avant-garde jazz. In the 1960s, Coleman learned violin and trumpet playing to the extent that he can use for sound color effects ever since. Since the early 1960s, he also composed works for ensembles of chamber music and since 1967 several times symphonic pieces for larger ensembles ( " Skies of America ", 1972).

Ornette Coleman developed mainly since the 1970s from the free jazz a system of " Harmolodie ". Unlike in the modal game is doing improvised on linear interval series. In particular, together with his band Prime Time, he was from the mid-1970s with the help of the system harmolodischen a pioneer of free radio, for he combined the " Harmolodics " with aggressive rock rhythms and celestial sounds. His album Dancing in Your Head, which was created in part with the Master Musicians of Jajouka was added to the list Wire The Wire 's " 100 Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One Was Listening ) ". In the 1980s, Coleman brought out more plates with Prime Time, but also with his classic quartet.

His records of the 1990s, where he partly in a classic jazz quartet ( piano, bass, drums ) and saxophone in piano duo performed ( with Joachim Kühn), also went down very well. On his album Sound Grammar, which was created at a festival appearance in Germany, he played in an unusual occupation (with two bassists and drummers ).

2002 and 2003 undertook Ornette Coleman detour into rock music and contributed to Lou Reed's editing of works by Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven, as well as Eddy Grant Hearts & Diamonds with. In earlier years he was involved in productions of Yoko Ono, Claude Nougaro Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Yochk'o Seffer and Joe Henry.

In March 2005, the media paid tribute to reports and eulogies Ornette Coleman's 75th birthday. Besides music, Coleman also interested in scientific subjects from physics, mathematics and chemistry. From the divorced wife, the poet Jayne Cortez comes his son Denardo Coleman, on which he relies as a drummer since 1966.

Awards (excerpt)

Discography

Important plates

• Something Else! !
• The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959 ) with his classic " Lonely Woman"
• Free Jazz (1960 )
• Dancing in Your Head (1973/1976)
• In All Languages ​​(1987 )

All recordings under his own name

Not legitimized albums with *

• Something Else! ! (1958)
• Coleman Classics Vol 1 (1958 )
• Tomorrow Is the Question! (1959)
• The Shape Of Jazz to Come (1959 )
• Change Of The Century (1959 )
• This Is Our Music (1960 )
• Free Jazz (1960 )
• Ornette! (1961)
• Ornette on Tenor ( 1961)
• The Art of the Improvisers (1961 )
• Twins (1961 )
• To Whom Who Keeps a Record ( 1960)
• Beauty Is A Rare Thing ( 1961) *
• Town Hall ( 1962)
• Chappaqua Suite ( 1965)
• An Evening With Ornette Coleman (1965 )
• Who's Crazy Vol 1 (1965 ) *
• Who's Crazy Vol 2 (1965 ) *
• The Paris Concert ( 1965) *
• Ornette Coleman: The Empty Foxhole. Blue Note 9/66 (1966)
• The Music of Ornette Coleman - Forms & Sounds (1967 )
• The Unprecedented Music Of Ornette Coleman (1968 ) *
• Live in Milano ( 1968) *
• New York Is Now (1968 )
• Love Call (1968 )

• Crisis ( 1969)
• Man on the Moon / Growing Up (1969 ) *
• Friends And Neighbors ( 1970)
• Science Fiction (1971 )
• European Concert (1971 ) *
• Broken Shadows (1971 /72)
• Paris Concert (1966/1971) *
• The Belgrade Concert ( 1971) *
• Skies of America (1972 )
• Ornette Coleman Broadcasts (1972 ) *
• Dancing in Your Head (1973/1976)
• Body Meta ( 1976)
• Soapsuds, Soapsuds (1977 )
• Of Human Feelings (1979 )
• Opening The Caravan Of Dreams (1983 )
• Prime Time / Time Design (1983 )
• Song X (1985 )
• In All Languages ​​(1987 )
• Verona Jazz ( 1987) *
• Virgin Beauty (1988 )
• Live at Jazz Stage Berlin ( 1988) *
• Naked Lunch (1991 )
• Sound Museum - Hidden Man ( 1994)
• Sound Museum - Three Women (1994 )
• Colors (1996 )
• Sound Grammar (2006)