Best of Ornette Coleman - BLUE NOTE
Released: Mar 10, 1998
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Released: Mar 10, 1998
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If there ever was an artist unsuited to a best-of compilation, it's Ornette Coleman. His music is about space and texture within a certain context, not only within the compositions themselves, but...
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Colors: Live from Leipzig
Released: Aug 31, 1996
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Released: Aug 31, 1996
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Ornette Coleman is certainly full of surprises in his 60s, recording a duo album with -- believe it or not -- a pianist. For this project, he chose the German pianist Joachim Kühn, who gratefully...
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Chappaqua Suite
Released: Feb 27, 1996
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Released: Feb 27, 1996
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This four-part suite is actually a film soundtrack to the debut feature by Conrad Rooks, though it was never used as such. Recorded in 1965, it was performed by the Ornette Coleman Trio with...
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David, Moffett & Ornette
Released: Dec 5, 1995
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Released: Dec 5, 1995
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This is a rather unusual film. In 1966, the innovative Ornette Coleman (along with bassist David Izenzon and drummer Charles Moffett) was in Paris to improvise the soundtrack to a film titled Who's...
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Of Human Feelings
Released: Apr 25, 1979
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Released: Apr 25, 1979
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When one thinks of Ornette Coleman's innovative Prime Time Band, it is of crowded ensembles played by the altoist/leader, two guitars, two electric bassists, and two drummers. Actually, Jamaaladeen...
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Soapsuds, Soapsuds
Released: Jan 30, 1977
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Released: Jan 30, 1977
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This unusual album found Coleman taking time off from his electric free funk group, Prime Time, to record acoustic duets with his longtime associate, bassist Charlie Haden. Coleman switches to...
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