Ornette Coleman

"...Ornette Coleman's new album is actually two albums. The Ft...."

Nov. 22, 1996 Music Feature

American Independents

Shirley Clarke and Ornette Coleman's common ground

"...Ornette: Made in America is the last feature film made..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Independent Yet Empathic

Jazz Legend Ornette Coleman

"...illustration by Nathan Jensen Music history is full of..."

Nov. 22, 1996 Music Feature by Jeff Mccord

Equality

Ornette Coleman, speaking softly and carrying a huge legacy

"...With that, 74-year-old Fort Worth native Ornette Coleman explained away a decade's worth of UT's Performing..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Shape of Jazz to Come

The Ornette Coleman Quartet is coming to the Bass Concert Hall

"...the announcement of its 2010-11 season. Highlights include the Ornette Coleman Quartet in November and, as part of next..."

April 14, 2010 Music Post by Austin Powell

The Innovators

Part 2 of "Jazz," by Harvey Pekar

"...render judgments about the efforts of Louis Armstrong and Coleman Hawkins, musicians who were pretty much regarded as seminal..."

June 15, 2001 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Ornette Coleman

Live shot

"...Ornette ColemanBass Concert Hall, Nov. 14..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Better Than Nothing

Documentarian Ken Burns' takes on Jazz -- and loses.

"...is nonsensical. Consider the case of Fort Worth saxophonist Ornette Coleman. Before he emerged, improvisers were taking more and..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Luminous

"...as well as her collaboration with Fort Worth native Ornette Coleman, The Gathering conjures a potent image of its..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Free as They Want to Be

"...there were a few free-jazz performances recorded prior to Ornette Coleman's impact on the scene around 1960, the Ft...."

Dec. 18, 1998 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Texas Platters

"...ORNETTE COLEMAN + JOACHIM KUHN..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Music Review

Ornette Coleman

Record review

"...Ornette Coleman..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Some of That Jazz

Compared to What?

"...for creativity and originality. Dewey Redman played with avant-gardists Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett in the 1960s and Seventies..."

Feb. 20, 1998 Books Feature by Harvey Pekar

Critics Poll

"...ORNETTE COLEMAN Bass Concert Hall (Raoul Hernandez)..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Music Feature

The Education of a Lifetime

A look at UT's Performing Arts Center and the process by which they bring the biggest names in jazz to Austin.

"..."Our greatest priority and desire was to get Ornette Coleman," says Quinn. "We were in communication with Ornette..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Off the Record

A Thanksgiving feast with Speak, A Welch Family Affair, and Ornette Coleman

"...Around the time of Ornette Coleman's last visit to Bass Concert Hall in 2004,..."

Nov. 26, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

The Composer's Roots

A look at the career of a premier jazz pianist, Dallas-born Cedar Walton

"...Mitchell, tenor saxophonists Hank Mobley, Clifford Jordan, and George Coleman, bassists Ron Carter and Richard Davis, and drummers Billy..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Music Reviews

"...ORNETTE COLEMAN..."

Nov. 3, 1995 Music Review

Trio 2000

Q&A with one of jazz's premier guitarists.

"...a long list of them. Even saxophone trios, there's Ornette's Golden Circle, there's Sonny Rollins, there's Albert Ayler...."

Oct. 6, 2000 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Ornette Coleman

"...Ornette Coleman..."

May 4, 2007 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Identifying the Impulse

"...Blue Note began addressing changes around them wrought by Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, and others, signing up Coleman, Taylor,..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Music Feature by Jeff Mccord

Fire Music

It’s definitely not trad, dad, in this history of free jazz

"...form championed from the late 1950s by pioneers like Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor, and given respectability by John..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Bare Necessities

Tenor titan Sonny Rollins still peeling bark

"...that short list. Jazz's known universes, Art Tatum through Ornette Coleman, records protean blowers Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, and..."

May 1, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Texas Medal of Arts Awards: The stars at night are big and bright ...

Stars fall on Austin April 3 as the Texas Cultural Trust Council hands out its annual Texas Medal of Arts Awards to some of the Lone Star State's greatest cultural heroes

"...White Hot Sandra Brown (Literary Arts); revolutionary jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman (Music); internationally recognized African-American dance troupe Alvin Ailey..."

March 30, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

TCB

The ongoing liquor-fueled legend of the Hickoids, Neil Diamond's people make the Diamond Smugglers' life hell, and Pete Townshend will be at SXSW anyway, anyhow, anywhere

"...JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM: Ornette Coleman, Sound Grammar..."

Dec. 15, 2006 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Alex Coke

Texas Platters

"...various Texas composers ranging from Huddie Ledbetter (Leadbelly) to Ornette Coleman. Recorded live at Amsterdam's legendary BimhausBimhuis, the result..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Box Sets/Reissues

The Disco Box

"...Dave Brubeck, Art Pepper, Hampton Hawes, Eric Dolphy, and Ornette Coleman, to name but a few. Miles Davis, Clifford..."

April 9, 1999 Music Feature

I Wanna Take You Higher

"...the bebop years immediately following WWII and ending with Ornette Coleman taking his avant-garde visions to NYC at the..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Books Feature by Simon Reynolds

Naked Lunch

Leave it to Cronenberg to tackle William S. Burroughs' notorious – and notoriously "unfilmable" – novel. Then add in a score by Ornette Coleman.

"...into its hallucinations. The soundtrack features music performed by Ornette Coleman and his Trio. All this may not be..."

Jan. 24, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Holy Ghost

Austin's Revenant Records follows up its Grammy-winning Charley Patton box set with free jazzman Albert Ayler's 9-CD 'Holy Ghost'

"..."He was fascinated by the music of Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane, yet despite repeated rejection from..."

Oct. 8, 2004 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

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