EXHIBITION OPENING TODAY-Black River - photographs by Coreen Simpson Nov 20, 2009
hp%20 LEFT TO RIGHT: PHOTOGRAPHER ROY DE CARAVA with jazz musician ORNETTE COLEMAN. circa l980s (photograph by Coreen Simpson ) You might also want to view a recent video by Coreen, titled "Block Party" on Mobile Me. FINAL-THE BLOCK PARTY > Sent to you by coreensimpson@me. (AbsoluteArts.com)
* EVENTS & ENTERTAINMENT Oct 30, 2009
Flaneur Daguerre, a jazz quartet that plays everything Bach to Bjork and Ornette Coleman to the Ramones, performs tonight at Sappho de Base. Tomorrow its. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Jazz's roots dig deep Sep 24, 2009
WITH all the hyperbole over Woodstock's 40th anniver sary this year, scant mention has been made of the 50th of Ornette Coleman's landmark album "The Shape of Jazz To Come" and his live shows at Manhattan's Five Spot club. That's where boldface names such as Leonard Bernstein, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton watched wide-eyed as the Ornette Coleman Quartet made a 90-degree musical turn ... "If contemporary jazz musicians in the '50s played with blues as the roots of jazz, Ornette Coleman... (New York Post -- Entertainment)
In Pynchon’s tales, music is the backbeat Sep 20, 2009
McClintic Sphere, in V., bears a marked resemblance to Ornette Coleman. The Paranoids (a name not lightly bestowed by Pynchon) sing their way through The Crying of Lot 49. (Boston Globe)
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Harbison takes a jazz turn Sep 16, 2009
Then, in the summer of 1959, the Harvard undergrad made a fateful choice: Offered scholarships to Tanglewood (to study conducting) and the short-lived but eminent Lenox School of Jazz (the year Ornette Coleman famously showed up), Harbison chose Tanglewood. But he s been writing songs ever since, and the set list for Wednesday s show draws from work both well-known and obscure. (Boston Globe)
Charlie Kohlhase’s Explorer’s Club at Johnny D’s Sep 9, 2009
As a New Hampshire teen, Charlie Kohlhase was hooked on Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus, and John Coltrane. As a student in Maine, Kohlhase learned from his music teacher, Roswell Rudd, that playing one note for a while opens up a lot of improvisational adventures (this word crops up later). (Boston Globe)
‘1959’ provides lots of information, few revelations Aug 20, 2009
His description of Ornette Coleman, who revolutionized jazz, is especially insightful: He was trying to express a specific emotion, and the twelve notes of the Western scale didn t always hit the target. In practice sessions, he would sometimes blow a note over and over, adjusting the mouthpiece or embouchure ever so slightly to get exactly the pitch he wanted. (Boston Globe)
Music: the week ahead Aug 13, 2009
CHARNETT MOFFETT TRIO The veteran acoustic and electric bass virtuoso has played with everyone from Ornette Coleman to Wynton Marsalis. With all-star trio-mates pianist Stephen Scott and drummer Will Calhoun, he celebrates The Art of Improvisation, his 10th album as a leader. (Boston Globe)
S.F. festival unveils lineup Jul 11, 2009
There will also be plenty of familiar faces, such as Ornette Coleman (Nov. 8 at Davies Symphony Hall), Melody Gardot (Oct. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Montreal Jazz Festival specials Jun 25, 2009
Known as one of the worlds largest jazz festivals, the event will stage headline concerts by legendary musicians like Stevie Wonder, Ornette Coleman, and John Pizzarelli and has drawn more than two million visitors in past years. For an affordable Montreal stay during the popular festival, consider one of these outstanding hotel packages. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Henry VIII reigns supreme May 17, 2009
s, Buddy Guy and Susan Tedeschi, Wayne Shorter, King Sunny Ade, Jeff Beck, and Ornette Coleman. There are more than 650 concerts scheduled, 450 of them free. (Boston Globe)
The Beast begins weekend May 16, 2009
Maybe your musical preferences lean toward Ornette Coleman and Sarah Vaughan. Or maybe you prefer Kanye West and Ne-Yo. (Herald Sun)
Fly to Montreal for $170 each way May 14, 2009
Concert appearences will include Jeff Beck, Chris Botti, Jackson Browne, Pink Martini, Ornette Coleman Quartet, Maria Schneider, Wayne Shorter Quartet, The Lost Fingers, Gary Burton Quartet Revisited with Pat Metheny, Steve Swallow and Antonio Sanchez, and George Wein and the Newport All-Stars. The best part of this gigantic event is that the non-stop entertainment, from noon to midnight, is held right in the heart of downtown Montreal. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
A Passage to India Feb 23, 2009
Jazz players, such as Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, and Albert Ayler, had gone about it by varying intonation, blowing multiphonics (two or more notes at the same time), or squawking in the upper register, where pitches are imprecisely defined. Gopalnath does none of that. (New Yorker)
Feeling good about the blues Feb 19, 2009
Everybody who ever becomes a musician can play some blues in one form or another from Ornette Coleman to John Mayer. Q: What is it that drew you to the guitar, rather than some other instrument. (Racine Journal Times, WI)
Festival an amalgamation of experimental sights and sounds Feb 19, 2009
"The best person I got to meet was Charlie Haden, who was bass player for Ornette Coleman, and I got to totally geek out on him. I got to tell him 'Liberation Music Orchestra' was my favorite record on Earth.". McIntosh, who graduated from the UGA music school, also is a cellist and has lent her talents to numerous bands around town over the years, while also heading up her own, The Instruments. (Athens Banner-Herald)
This ensemble is brassy and sassy Feb 10, 2009
The group's latest CD is "Forked Tongue" with music by Field, Ornette Coleman, Billy Idol, and others. 10 p.m. Free. (Boston Globe)
Davis on Davis Feb 10, 2009
But much of what Davis interprets as racism is his own hubris, as when he accuses white jazz critics of having written approvingly in the mid-sixties of such black avant-gardists as Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, and Archie Shepp in an effort to deflect attention from him. (Never mind that the critics most identified with what was then called "the New Thing" were Amiri Baraka and A. B. Spellman, both of whom are black. (The Atlantic Online)
