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Ornette Coleman Sextet.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Free Jazz.
- United States and Canada.
- African Americans.
- Local Subjects:
- Free Jazz.
- United States and Canada.
- African Americans.
- Genre:
- Performance
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (44 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Paris, Ile-de-France : Qwest TV, 1978.
- Language Note:
- In German.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Totally unique artist breaks more new ground. Ornette Coleman’s singular path through the world of music was defined by a desire to challenge himself creatively. To that end he changed groups many times and his electric bands in the ‘70s and ‘80s developed a smart leftfield funk. With two players assigned to one instrument (the drums and guitar duos of Denardo Coleman and Shannon Jackson, and Bern Nix and James ‘Blood" Ulmer) this sextet created a thicket of rolling, crisscross riffs that implemented Ornette’s ideas about how harmony, melody and rhythm could interact with the greatest spontaneity. This is a different sound to that of his acoustic quartets of the ‘50s and sees Coleman, who also plays violin as well as alto saxophone, embrace his R&B roots to produce fire-spitting music, as if James Brown and Albert Ayler had the chance to jam with abandon. Kevin Le Gendre
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed July 15, 2024).
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