bywterbro
05-31-2007, 10:39 AM
COLEMAN: THE BIGGEST NAME IN CAMPING
Those packing up their tents and gear for Bonnaroo June 14-17 now have Ornette Coleman to look forward to. He was recently added to the lineup and will headline Bonnaroo's first-ever jazz tent (sound familiar?), a 500-seat venue.
Dr. A.
05-31-2007, 05:10 PM
cool. any idea what type band he will be playing with? electric? primetimeish?
trio with denardo (i kinda hope not)?
i may have to break down and go to this.
bywterbro
05-31-2007, 05:32 PM
from his website..
Ornette Coleman Quartet Concert Performance Schedule
Ornette Coleman and his Quartet in concert performing throughout 2007
June 17, 2007
Bonnaroo, Tennessee, USA
July 6, 2007
Kongsberg, Norway
July 9, 2007
Royal Festival Hall, London, UK
July 11, 2007
Perugia, Italy
July 13, 2007
Pescara, Italy
July 15, 2007
North Sea (Rotterdam), The Netherlands
July 18, 2007
Warsaw, Poland
July 20, 2007 Vitoria, Spain
September 23, 2007
Monterey, California, USA
September 26, 2007
Los Angeles, California, USA (Royce Hall UCLA)
Ornette Coleman
For more than five decades, saxophonist/composer Ornette Coleman has played a pivotally seminal role in American music. The inventor of what has been called "free jazz," Coleman belongs to that rare breed of artists/thinkers whose influence extends far beyond the realm of their chosen medium. Always putting his remarkable virtuosity at the service of melody and emotion, he has had and continues to have a powerful impact on how musicians play, improvise, and compose, on how music lovers listen, on the color and sound of music the world over.
While Coleman has led a wide variety of formations, from duos to symphony orchestras, electric and acoustic, his basic musical concept has been remarkably consistent. He is interested in writing and performing music that allows all players to give free reign to their imagination and ideas. His musical system, which he named �harmolodics�and now prefers to call "sound grammar," is a remarkable exercise in applied democracy. All voices are given equal weight; all musicians are free to make deep individual contributions while listening closely to one another, at once giving & taking space for their respective creativity.
The release of Sound Grammar marks several firsts: the first release on Coleman�s own, new label, also called Sound Grammar,the album is his first in more than a decade; his first live album in 20 years; and the first recording featuring his latest, now three-year-old, band. Composed of Ornette Coleman on saxophone, trumpet & violin, his son Denardo Coleman on drums, and acoustic bassists Tony Falanga (Orchestra of St. Luke�s) & Greg Cohen (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, John Zorn�s Masada), this group sounds like no other on the music scene or in Ornette�s career.
Beautifully recorded live in concert in Germany in late 2005, Sound Grammar showcases six brand new Coleman compositions and two remakes: "Song X," originally featured on the 1985 album of the same name, and "Turnaround," from the classic 1959 LP Tomorrow is The Question. He explains: "When I get a job to perform I write a whole new program of music so that we don't perform something I have played before and that my musicians have not. I want them to be affected the same way I'm being affected. I only do that for the sake of equality, not because I want to be a great composer."
Ornette explains further: "Sound grammar is to music what letters are to language. Music is a language of sounds that transforms all human languages." As original, innovative, and groundbreaking as anything Coleman has released in nearly five decades of record making, Sound Grammar is also one of his most accessible and melodic works to date. It is poised to rank among the key musical events of 2006.