Ornette Coleman
Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s, a term he invented with the name of an album. Coleman's timbre was easily recognized: his keening, crying sound drew heavily on blues music. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1994. His album Sound Grammar received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for music.
Biography
Early life
Coleman was born in 1930 in Fort Worth, Texas, where he was also raised. He attended I.M. Terrell High School, where he participated in band until he was dismissed for improvising during "The Washington Post." He began performing R&B and bebop initially on tenor saxophone, and started a band, the Jam Jivers, with some fellow students including Prince Lasha and Charles Moffett. Seeking a way to work his way out of his home town, he took a job in 1949 with a Silas Green from New Orleans traveling show and then with touring rhythm and blues shows. After a show in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he was assaulted and his saxophone was destroyed.
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Famous quotes by Ornette Coleman:
"Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time."
"I'm interested in music, not in my image. If someone plays something fantastic, that I could never have thought of, it makes me happy to know it exists."
"It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something."
"I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me."
"I would like to play for audiences who are not using my music to stimulate their sex organs"
"So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask,'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'"
"Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'"
"I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it."
"That's why I haven't been so anxious. But now, lots of people write and say, 'I want to find out what you're doing.' So I know that this book will enlighten them."
"That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about."
"No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying."
"I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing."
"It seems to me that in the western world, culture has something to do with appearance. A person that's out creating good stuff has got to appreciate someone when they take the time to have an appearance that goes with what they're doing."
"If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right, good information."
"I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores."
"All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body - like radiation, cancer, and all."
Ornette Coleman
ALBUMS
- Six Classic Albums released: 2013
- Ornette On Tenor released: 2012
- Live In Beograd, Yugoslavia - 2nd November 1971 released: 2011
- Something Else!!!! released: 2011
- Ornette Coleman: Original Album Series released: 2011
- Something Else!!!!: The Music of Ornette Coleman released: 2011
- The Paris Concerts 1965-1666 released: 2009
- Croydon Concert released: 2008
- Coleção Folha clássicos do jazz, Volume 15 released: 2007
- Complete Live at the Hillcrest Club released: 2007
- Sound Grammar released: 2006
- Song X released: 2005
- Ken Burns Jazz released: 2000
- Don Cherry released: 1999
- In All Languages released: 1997
- Sound Museum: Three Women released: 1996
- Hidden Man released: 1996
- Tone Dialing released: 1995
- Ornette on Tenor released: 1993
- Beauty Is a Rare Thing released: 1993
- Naked Lunch released: 1992
- Jazz Buhne Berlin, Volume 5 released: 1990
- Love Call released: 1990
- Virgin Beauty released: 1988
- Broken Shadows released: 1982
- Soapsuds, Soapsuds released: 1979
- Body Meta released: 1978
- Dancing in Your Head released: 1977
- Ornette at 12 released: 1976
- To Whom Who Keeps a Record released: 1975
- Science Fiction released: 1972
- Skies of America released: 1972
- Twins released: 1971
- The Art of the Improvisers released: 1970
- The Best of Ornette Coleman released: 1970
- New York Is Now released: 1968
- The Empty Foxhole released: 1966
- Ornette! released: 1962
- Change of the Century released: 1960
- Tomorrow Is the Question! released: 1959
- The Shape of Jazz to Come released: 1959
- Something Else!!!! released:
- The Shape Of Jazz To Come released:
- Dancing in Your Head released:
- A Meeting of the Times / Ornette! released:
- Introducing: Ornette Coleman released:
- Les Incontournables: Ornette Coleman released:
- Harlem's Manhattan released:
- Free released:
- Free Jazz released:
- The Best of Ornette Coleman released:
- Opening the Caravan of Dreams released:
- An Evening With Ornette Coleman released:
- Friends and Neighbors released:
- The Art of the Improvisers released:
- Of Human Feelings released:
- Colors released:
In All Languages
Released 1997- Peace Warriors
- Feet Music
- Africa Is the Mirror of All Colors
- Word for Bird
- Space Church (Continuous Services)
- Latin Genetics
- In All Languages
- Sound Manual
- Mothers of the Veil
- Cloning
- Music News
- Mothers of the Veil
- The Art of Love Is Happiness
- Latin Genetics
- Today, Yesterday and Tomorrow
- Listen Up
- Feet Music
- Space Church (Continuous Services)
- Cloning
- In All Languages
- Biosphere
- Story Tellers
- Peace Warriors
Naked Lunch
Released 1992- Naked Lunch
- Hauser and O'Brien / Bugpowder
- Mugwumps
- Centipede
- The Black Meat
- Simpatico / Misterioso
- Fadela's Coven
- Interzone Suite
- William Tell
- Mujahaddin
- Intersong
- Dr. Benway
- Clark Nova Dies
- Ballad / Joan
- Cloquet's Parrots / Midnight Sunrise
- Nothing Is True; Everything Is Permitted
- Welcome to Annexia
- Writeman
Skies of America
Released 1972- Skies of America
- Native Americans
- The Good Life
- Birthdays and Funerals
- Dreams
- Sounds of Sculpture
- Holiday for Heroes
- All of My Life
- Dancers
- The Souls Within Woman
- The Artist in America
- The New Anthem
- Place in Space
- Foreigner in a Free Land
- Silver Screen
- Poetry
- The Men Who Live in the White House
- Love Life
- The Military
- Jam Session
- Sunday in America
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