Free Jazz Harmolodics And Ornette Coleman

Author : Stephen Rush
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317303245
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free Jazz, Harmolodics, and Ornette Coleman written by Stephen Rush and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free Jazz, Harmolodics, and Ornette Coleman discusses Ornette Coleman’s musical philosophy of "Harmolodics," an improvisational system deeply inspired by the Civil Rights Movement. Falling under the guise of "free jazz," Harmolodics can be difficult to understand, even for seasoned musicians and musicologists. Yet this book offers a clear and thorough approach to these complex methods, outlining Coleman’s position as the developer of a logical—and historically significant—system of jazz improvisation. Included here are detailed musical analyses of improvisations, accompanied by full transcriptions. Intimate interviews between the author and Coleman explore the deeper issues at work in Harmolodics, issues of race, class, sex, and poverty. The principle of human equality quickly emerges as a central tenet of Coleman’s life and music. Harmolodics is best understood when viewed in its essential form, both as a theory of improvisation and as an artistic expression of racial and human equality.

Author : John Litweiler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ornette Coleman written by John Litweiler and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biografie van de Amerikaanse jazzmusicus (1930- ).

Author : Maria Golia
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789142636
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ornette Coleman written by Maria Golia and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-06-20 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With striking photographs and personal insight, a compelling biography of the great American saxophonist and free jazz innovator Ornette Coleman. Ornette Coleman’s career encompassed the glory years of jazz and the American avant-garde. Born in segregated Fort Worth, Texas, during the Great Depression, the African-American composer and musician was zeitgeist incarnate. Steeped in the Texas blues tradition, he and jazz grew up together, as the brassy blare of big band swing gave way to bebop—a faster music for a faster, postwar world. At the luminous dawn of the Space Age and New York’s 1960s counterculture, Coleman gave voice to the moment. Lauded by some, maligned by many, he forged a breakaway art sometimes called “the new thing” or “free jazz.” Featuring previously unpublished photographs of Coleman and his contemporaries, this book tells the compelling story of one of America’s most adventurous musicians and the sound of a changing world.

Author : Peter Niklas Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ornette Coleman written by Peter Niklas Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Ornette Coleman approaches his 70th birthday, this book takes full measure of the man who has been called the most important jazz figure since Charlie Parker.

Author : Howard Mandel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135886369
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miles, Ornette, Cecil written by Howard Mandel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-04-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, and Cecil Taylor revolutionized music from the end of the twentieth century into the twenty-first, expanding on jazz traditions with distinctly new concepts of composition, improvisation, instrumentation, and performance. They remain figures of controversy due to their border-crossing processes. Miles, Ornette, Cecil is the first book to connect these three icons of the avant-garde, examining why they are lionized by some critics and reviled by others, while influencing musicians across such divides as genre, geography, and racial and ethnic backgrounds. Mandel offers fresh insights into their careers from interviews with all three artists and many of their significant collaborators, as well as a thorough overview of earlier interpretations of their work.

Author : Nate Chinen
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101873493
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playing Changes written by Nate Chinen and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, GQ, Billboard, JazzTimes In jazz parlance, “playing changes” refers to an improviser’s resourceful path through a chord progression. In this definitive guide to the jazz of our time, leading critic Nate Chinen boldly expands on that idea, taking us through the key changes, concepts, events, and people that have shaped jazz since the turn of the century—from Wayne Shorter and Henry Threadgill to Kamasi Washington and Esperanza Spalding; from the phrase “America’s classical music” to an explosion of new ideas and approaches; from claims of jazz’s demise to the living, breathing scene that exerts influence on mass culture, hip-hop, and R&B. Grounded in authority and brimming with style, packed with essential album lists and listening recommendations, Playing Changes takes the measure of this exhilarating moment—and the shimmering possibilities to come.

Author : Rob Young
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789605156
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wire Primers written by Rob Young and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since it was founded in 1982, The Wire magazine has covered a vast range of alternative, experimental, underground and non-mainstream music. Now some of that knowledge has been distilled into The Wire Primers: a comprehensive guide to the core recordings of some of the most visionary and inspiring, subversive and radical musicians on the planet, past and present. Each chapter surveys the musical universe of a particular artist, group or genre by way of a contextualizing introduction and a thumbnail guide to the most essential recordings. A massive and eclectic range of music is celebrated and demystified, from rock mavericks such as Captain Beefheart and The Fall; the funk of James Brown and Fela Kuti; the future jazz of Sun Ra and Ornette Coleman; and the experimental compositions of John Cage and Morton Feldman. Genres surveyed and explained include P-funk, musique concrte, turntablism, Brazilian Tropiclia, avant metal and dubstep. The Wire Primers is a vital guide to contemporary sounds, providing an accessible entry point for any reader wanting to dig below the surface of mainstream music.

Author : Michael Stephans
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442249633
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Experiencing Ornette Coleman written by Michael Stephans and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Ornette Coleman, along with pianist Cecil Taylor, was one of the founding forces of the Free Jazz movement which took the music world by storm in the 1950s and 60s. His brilliance as an instrumentalist at first positioned him as a polarizing figure, but eventually brought him recognition as an American original and international jazz treasure. Jazz drummer Michael Stephans explores the personal challenges Coleman faced, the music he created from one decade to the next, and the incredibly positive attitude he maintained in the face of so much negativity throughout his life. Revealing how Coleman became an iconic, enigmatic figure not only in jazz, but in much of contemporary improvisational music, Stephans weaves together analysis of Coleman’s recordings with interviews of those who knew Coleman best. Experiencing Ornette Coleman: A Listener's Companion encourages both jazz devotees and readers with little knowledge of the music to trace the inspirational journey of this now-seminal figure from his early years through the beginnings of the new millennium. Along the way, readers will learn about the music and motivations of the free jazz movement while experiencing an utterly human story of artistic genius and expression.

Author : Joe Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780985981006
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perpetual Frontier written by Joe Morris and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A. B. Spellman
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879100421
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Lives in the Bebop Business written by A. B. Spellman and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1985 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Score