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Free Jazz Excerpt by The Ornette Coleman Double Quartet
The Ornette Coleman Double Quartet
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In 1960 Coleman Recorded Free Jazz A Collective Improvisation Which Featured A Double Quartet Including Cherry And Freddie Hubbard On Trumpet Eric Dolphy On Bass Clarinet Haden And LaFaro On Bass And Both Higgins And Blackwell On Drums. The Record Was Recorded In Stereo With A Reed/brass/bass/Drums Quartet Isolated In Each Stereo Channel. Free Jazz Was At Nearly 40 Minutes The Lengthiest Recorded Continuous Jazz Performance To Date And Was Instantly One Of Coleman's Most Controversial Albums. The Music Features A Regular But Complex Pulse One Drummer Playing "straight" While The Other Played Double-Time The Thematic Material Is A Series Of Brief Dissonant Fanfares As Is Conventional In Jazz There Are A Series Of Solo Features For Each Member Of The Band But The Other Soloists Are Free To Chime In As They Wish Producing Some Extraordinary Passages Of Collective Improvisation By The Full Octet. Coleman Intended “Free Jazz” Simply To Be The Album Title But His Growing Reputation Placed Him At The Forefront Of Jazz Innovation And Free Jazz Was Soon Considered A New Genre Though Coleman Has Expressed Discomfort With The Term. Among The Reasons Coleman May Not Have Entirely Approved Of The Term Free Jazz Is That His Music Contains A Considerable Amount Of Composition. His Melodic Material Although Skeletal Strongly Recalls The Melodies That Charlie Parker Wrote Over Standard Harmonies And In General The Music Is Closer To The Bebop That Came Before It Than Is Sometimes Popularly Imagined. Several Early Tunes Of His For Instance Are Clearly Based On Favorite Bop Chord Changes Like "Out Of Nowhere" And "I Got Rhythm." Coleman Very Rarely Played Standards Concentrating On His Own Compositions Of Which There Seems To Be An Endless Flow. There Are Exceptions Though Including A Classic Reading Virtually A Recomposition Of "Embraceable You" For Atlantic And An Improvisation On Thelonious Monk's "Criss-Cross" Recorded With Gunther Schuller.
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Biography - The Ornette Coleman Double Quartet
In 1960 Coleman Recorded Free Jazz A Collective Improvisation Which Featured A Double Quartet Including Cherry And Freddie Hubbard On Trumpet Eric Dolphy On Bass Clarinet Haden And LaFaro On Bass And Both Higgins And Blackwell On Drums. The Record Was Recorded In Stereo With A Reed/brass/bass/Drums Quartet Isolated In Each Stereo Channel. Free Jazz Was At Nearly 40 Minutes The Lengthiest Recorded Continuous Jazz Performance To Date And Was Instantly One Of Coleman's Most Controversial Albums. The Music Features A Regular But Complex Pulse One Drummer Playing "straight" While The Other Played Double-Time The Thematic Material Is A Series Of Brief Dissonant Fanfares As Is Conventional In Jazz There Are A Series Of Solo Features For Each Member Of The Band But The Other Soloists Are Free To Chime In As They Wish Producing Some Extraordinary Passages Of Collective Improvisation By The Full Octet. Coleman Intended “Free Jazz” Simply To Be The Album Title But His Growing Reputation Placed Him At The Forefront Of Jazz Innovation And Free Jazz Was Soon Considered A New Genre Though Coleman Has Expressed Discomfort With The Term. Among The Reasons Coleman May Not Have Entirely Approved Of The Term Free Jazz Is That His Music Contains A Considerable Amount Of Composition. His Melodic Material Although Skeletal Strongly Recalls The Melodies That Charlie Parker Wrote Over Standard Harmonies And In General The Music Is Closer To The Bebop That Came Before It Than Is Sometimes Popularly Imagined. Several Early Tunes Of His For Instance Are Clearly Based On Favorite Bop Chord Changes Like "Out Of Nowhere" And "I Got Rhythm." Coleman Very Rarely Played Standards Concentrating On His Own Compositions Of Which There Seems To Be An Endless Flow. There Are Exceptions Though Including A Classic Reading Virtually A Recomposition Of "Embraceable You" For Atlantic And An Improvisation On Thelonious Monk's "Criss-Cross" Recorded With Gunther Schuller.
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