“Making music is like a form of religion for me, because it soothes your heart and increases the pleasure of your brain. Most of all, it’s very enjoyable to express something that you can only hear and not see, which is not bad.”
– Ornette Coleman
1930 – 2015
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Interview with Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman in Rome, 1974
Jazz and the Avant Garde – A two-part docuseries on the birth and evolution of the free jazz movement in American jazz. This series is based on the book written by Conny Murray, the younger brother of free jazz drummer Sunny Murray, who witnessed the movement first-hand and provides an in-depth account. This series is unique because the author correlates earlier periods of jazz with the philosophies and motivations behind the free jazz movement in the US and Europe. The series begins with Part One – the New Wave Innovators (John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy and Pharaoh Sanders – 72 minutes), while Part Two features – the Free Jazz Innovators (Cecil Taylor, Sunny Murray, Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Albert Ayler and Archie Shepp)…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lm5eMTzqrc
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