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Old 06.11.2015, 01:10 PM   #1
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One of the very finest musicians has left planet earth.
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Old 06.11.2015, 02:23 PM   #2
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I got to see Prime Time 3 nights in a row. With the 2 bass players, 2 gtrs, 2 drummers and Ornette on violin & plastic alto. Met the whole band & bought drinks. They were all real nice guys. Ornette himself was kind of tiny, I had expected him to be a big guy due to the great impact he's had.

Also saw Prime Time at the Paramount in Seattle with my soon-to-be wife. she didn't care much for the "insect music", but stayed with me anyways
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One of the very finest musicians has left planet earth.

Indeed...a sad, sad day. Rest well, my friend.

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Old 06.11.2015, 03:02 PM   #4
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yes. fuck. lucky for us still around his work lives on.
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Old 06.11.2015, 03:03 PM   #5
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Old 06.11.2015, 03:59 PM   #6
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yes. fuck. lucky for us still around his work lives on.
His music for me is still at times so hard to crack but it's been beyond rewarding when it happened. A real treasure. It's always great to be humbled by someone's brilliant body of work and have your jaws dropping.
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Oh damn. Yes this is very sad indeed.

One of two jazz musicians who I felt artistically and intellectually unqualified to listen to for many years before finally digging into his iconic discography (the other was Thelonous Monk).

I still feel that claiming to understand or fully grasp Coleman's music would be hubris. He was a true pioneer of experimental music, and one of the founding fathers of the musical avante grade.

He will, of course, be missed.
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"I knew I was on to something when I found I could make mistakes."


wish i would have seen him live once.
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Old 06.17.2015, 08:49 PM   #10
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oh man, RIP!! the song Virgin Beauty just destroys me. cant remember the first time I heard it. but I heard it. long ago.

his music puts a smile on my face and I sometimes laugh out loud. or something there that is deeply sad. a extreme balance of both worlds.

sometimes listening to his music is hard like staring down at a pin point, but once you're there, you're there riding a wave of vibrations. Coltrane had that period too.

nothing intellectual here. I bought Free Jazz because of Ken Burns.
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The Wire's Ornette portal, featuring tributes by Robert Wyatt, Gareth Sager, Mark Cunningham and Otomo Yoshihide, among others:

http://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/artists/ornette-coleman
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Old 06.19.2015, 06:53 PM   #13
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it's been said a thousand times but it's all about Lonely Woman. basically, it's not what you hear Coleman playing but what you hear as a whole. sweet stuff.
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