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The Monk & Ellington Sessions
by Howard Riley
I love hearing pianists who don't play Monk Monkishly. And I love hearing pianists who don't overdo ...
Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman
by John Zorn
Mutant jazz snot-rocketer John Zorn thoroughly dismantles the catalog of free jazz architect Ornette...
Pariah's Pariah
by Gary Thomas
It’s amazing that what was, 15 or so years ago, a new language has since become a thoroughly absorbe...
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Icon: Ornette Coleman
By Britt Robson
You can count the people who changed the language of jazz on one hand: Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, (some would include Dizzy Gillespie here) and last, but not least, Ornette Coleman.
As happened when Parker, Gillespie, Monk and others broke through with bebop in the 1940s, Coleman's then-revolutionary music at the close of the 1950s polarized listeners by challenging them to listen to jazz with fewer preconceptions. Derided as noise by many and defended under the banner of "free jazz" by others...
You can count the people who changed the language of jazz on one hand: Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, (some would include Dizzy Gillespie here) and last, but not least, Ornette Coleman.
As happened when Parker, Gillespie, Monk and others broke through with bebop in the 1940s, Coleman's then-revolutionary music at the close of the 1950s polarized listeners by challenging them to listen to jazz with fewer preconceptions. Derided as noise by many and defended under the banner of "free jazz" by others...
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Top Jazz Tracks
| Listen | Track Name | Length |
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| 1. | |
What A Wonderful World
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2:20 |
| 2. | |
Historicity
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7:50 |
| 3. | |
Mystic Brew
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4:56 |
| 4. | |
Somewhere
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6:57 |
| 5. | |
Dogon A.D.
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9:19 |
| 6. | |
Galang (Trio Riot Version)
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2:40 |
| 7. | |
Smoke Stack
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8:09 |
| 8. | |
Helix
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4:00 |
| 9. | |
Big Brother
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4:47 |
| 10. | |
Trident: 2010
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9:09 |
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