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NEWS: Joe Romano dies at 76 Rochester City Newspaper, NY - Dec 1, 2008 Ever adventurous, Romano once sat in with avant-garde great Ornette Coleman. But he was clearly steeped in more traditional bebop, as evidenced by his ...

New York Times

For a Saxophonist With Many Options, a Chance to Showcase His Own ... New York Times, United States - Dec 03,2008 Though clearly indebted to Ornette Coleman, it felt immediate and sparked one of Mr. Irabagon’s most engaging solos. Beginning with some angular phrases, ...

Critical Mass

Keepers of the Chaos Critical Mass, PA - Nov 26, 2008 Add to that their shared roots in the musical theories of free-jazz godhead Ornette Coleman, whose mad-genius approach to composition and improvisation ...

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Free Jazz (A Collective Improvisation)

While Coleman titled his most famous album The Shape of Jazz to Come, this is really where he threw down the gauntlet, challenging all comers to make something more unique than this. And few had the guts to accept the challenge - this was 1960, after all. I don't think even Eric Dolphy had made the complete jump to avant-garde yet back then. And the critics laughed at Ornette. Fast forward five years, where John Coltrane had taken a cue from Ornette's albm-length masterpiece, putting out his (Ascension).

Tracks:
    1. Free Jazz
    2. First Take

Song X

First of all, this is a dream team group, Ornette Coleman and his original bassist Charlie Haden, with drummer extrodinare Jack Dejohnette, with Guitarist Pat Metheny, and Ornette's son on percussion. What comes out of the grooves is usually suprisingly fun and melodic, although sometimes brilliantly chaotic. This is a great introduction to Ornette's vision...

Tracks:
    1. Police People
    2. All of Us
    3. Good Life
    4. Word From Bird
    5. Compute
    6. Veil
    7. Song X
    8. Mob Job
    9. Endangered Species
    10. Video Games
    11. Kathelin Gray
    12. Trigonometry
    13. Song X Duo
    14. Long Time No See

Belgium 1969

This CD is a re-release (or perhaps a mildly legal release, with Gambit it's hard to be sure) of the Ornette bootleg "Broken Shadows". The songs titles are corrected, nice packaging and liner notes, but actually slightly worse sound quality than the bootleg. The music if 5 star, but figured someone should let other Ornette fans know what this is so you don't waste your money if you already have Broken Shadows(like I did!). And if you're abig Ornette fan, seek out the original for better sound.

Something Else!!!!:The Music of Ornette Coleman

Ornette Coleman generated quite a stir when he appeared on the jazz scene, although listening to his debut record nearly fifty years later, it's actually quite difficult to understand. "Something Else!!!!" actually sounds quite conventional and tame to modern ears, certainly not like the leap forward that his Atlantic debut, "The Shape of Jazz to Come" was.

A lot of this probably has to do with the band-- while Coleman (playing his trademark white plastic alto sax) is accompanied by his then-usual frontline partner Don Cherry on trumpet, his rhythm section-- pianist Walter Norris, bassist Don Payne, and drummer Billy Higgins-- play within conventional constraints.

Tracks:
    1. Invisible
    2. The Blessing
    3. Jayne
    4. Chippie
    5. The Disguise
    6. Angel Voice
    7. Alpha
    8. When Will the Blues Leave?
    9. The Sphinx

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