Coleman, Ornette

Overview

Works:	951 works in 2,563 publications in 8 languages and 19,881 library holdings
Genres:	Jazz Free jazz Live sound recordings Drama Science fiction films Fantasy films Saxophone music (Jazz) Violin music (Jazz) Trumpet music (Jazz) Motion picture music
Roles:	Author, Instrumentalist, Performer, Composer, Musician, Writer of accompanying material, Conductor, Commentator, Other, Interviewee, Editor, Dedicatee, Bibliographic antecedent, Compiler, Actor, Conceptor, Producer
Classifications:	M1366, 781.65

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Ornette Coleman

Jazz by John Fordham( Book )
Ornette Coleman : a harmolodic life by John Litweiler( Book )
Jazz by Ken Burns( Visual )
Miles, Ornette, Cecil : jazz beyond jazz by Howard Mandel( Book )
Four lives in the bebop business by A. B Spellman( Book )

Free jazz, harmolodics, and Ornette Coleman by Stephen Rush( Book )
Ornette Coleman : his life and music by Peter Niklas Wilson( Book )
Experiencing Ornette Coleman : a listener's companion by Michael Stephans( Book )
Contemporary Black biography. profiles from the international Black community by Gale (Firm)( )
The battle of the Five Spot : Ornette Coleman and the New York jazz field by David Lee( Book )
Ornette Coleman by Barry McRae( Book )
Contemporary musicians : profiles of the people in music by Michael L LaBlanc( )
Ornette Coleman by Claire O'Neal( Book )
Ornette Coleman, 1958-1979 : a discography by David Wild( Book )
Ornette Coleman : sein Leben, seine Musik, seine Schallplatten by Peter Niklas Wilson( Book )
Ornette Coleman : dal blues al jazz dell'avvenire by Michele Mannucci( Book )
Melodic organization in four solos by Ornette Coleman by Michael Cogswell( )
The adventure by Ken Burns( Visual )
Miles, Ornette, Cecil : how Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, and Cecil Taylor revolutionized the world of jazz by Howard Mandel( Book )
Jazu no jūgatsu kakumei by Jinʼichi Uekusa( Book )

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Most widely held works by Ornette Coleman

The shape of jazz to come by Ornette Coleman( Recording )

80 editions published between 1959 and 2015 in 5 languages and held by 1,081 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

" ... It's the entire album, which still has such freshness: it spills all over your idea of what jazz is but makes inherent sense, cohering with the like-mindedness of a suite."--New York Times Essential Library Jazz

Free jazz : a collective improvisation by Ornette Coleman Double Quartet( Recording )

59 editions published between 1960 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 838 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"By 1961, when Free Jazz was released, alto saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman was infamous in the jazz world. His searing alto sax and full-ensemble take on melody were assailed by critics. Free Jazz only furthered Coleman's infamy, with its seamless, seemingly atonal high energy and wholesale lack of a melodic or harmonic center. For the session, Coleman assembled two complete quartets and had them play the same music opposite each other, with diving power and a kind of strange grace usually associated with acoustic blues. The music is raw and incisive, with sharp tones and biting solos appearing amidst propulsive rhythms that still seem whispery in their swishing shuffle. This recording helped cast the 1960s--and every decade since--in jazz. It drew a line in the sand, and critics, fans, and musicians are still haggling over the line today."--Andrew Bartlett

Ken Burns jazz : the story of America's music by Ken Burns( Recording )

2 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 759 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Music from the PBS special Jazz, by filmmaker Ken Burns

Naked lunch( Visual )

1 edition published in 2003 in English and held by 641 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled to make sense of this alien territory, he writes a book called "Naked lunch."

Sound grammar by Ornette Coleman( Recording )

17 editions published in 2006 in 4 languages and held by 494 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Neues Album nach 10-jähriger Pause: Ornette Coleman zeigt auch mit 75 Jahren, dass er nach wie vor zur Avantgarde gehört. Der Begründer des "Free Jazz" (die Bewegung wurde nach seiner gleichnamigen Platte von 1961 benannt) spielt bei der vorliegenden Liveaufnahme vom Oktober 2005 aus Ludwigshafen im Quartett zusammen mit seinem Sohn Denardo Coleman (Schlagzeug), Gregory Cohen (Bass) und Tony Falanga (Bass), er selbst spielte Saxofon, Violine und Trompete. "'Sound Grammar' nun ist das Alterswerk des großen Soundrevolutionärs: weise, bezaubernd, radikal" (www.taz.de). Enthaltene Titel: 1. Intro 2. Jordan 3. Sleep Talking 4. Turnaround 5. Matador 6. Waiting for You 7. Call to Duty 8. Once Only

Song X : twentieth anniversary by Pat Metheny( Recording )

41 editions published between 1986 and 2005 in 4 languages and held by 481 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Tomorrow is the question! : [the new music of Ornette Coleman] by Ornette Coleman( Recording )

48 editions published between 1959 and 2014 in 4 languages and held by 400 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Change of the century by Ornette Coleman( Recording )

44 editions published between 1959 and 2016 in 5 languages and held by 399 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Something else!!! : the music of Ornette Coleman by Ornette Coleman( Recording )

39 editions published between 1958 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 289 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Road shows by Sonny Rollins( Recording )

10 editions published in 2011 in 3 languages and held by 282 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Jazz great Sonny Rollins presents a CD featuring material recorded during his 2010 tour of Japan as well as tracks from his 80th birthday concert in New York

Dancing in your head by Ornette Coleman( Recording )

34 editions published between 1977 and 2000 in 5 languages and held by 279 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Beauty is a rare thing : the complete Atlantic recordings by Ornette Coleman( Recording )

25 editions published between 1993 and 2015 in 4 languages and held by 276 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Contains the entirety of Ornette Coleman's recorded output for the Atlantic label, including the contents of the following albums: The shape of jazz to come; Change of the century; This is our music; Free jazz; Ornette!; Ornette on tenor; The art of the improvisers; Twins; To whom who keeps a record"--Container

Ornette Coleman : Ken Burns jazz by Ornette Coleman( Recording )

20 editions published between 1981 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 252 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Music critic Tim Page interviews Ornette Coleman, an American saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. They discuss Coleman's career as a jazz musician and a composer. Coleman talks about his earlier career playing in church, followed by pop music and bebop, and how in 1940s and 1950s he started to compose jazz music. He also explains his conception of bebop, and his later style called "free jazz." He talks about the group Primetime Band and his experience with the combination of various styles. He says he was always more interested in the world of music than the world of business. He gives advice to young composers not to focus on success but on result the piece they produce when they want to be heard, and not to copy styles of other composers but to follow their own. During his interview excerpts from Coleman's jazz composition Broadcast on radio station WNYC, New York City, Dec. 19, 1985

Sound museum : hidden man by Ornette Coleman( Recording )

35 editions published in 1996 in 4 languages and held by 226 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Spirit fiction by Ravi Coltrane( Recording )

1 edition published in 2012 and held by 226 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Praised for his music's elusive beauty, and for his style informed by tradition but not encumberedby it, saxophonist and composer Ravi Coltrane takes a bold step in his creative journey with Spirit Fiction, his Blue Note Records debut. The 11-track album features two different band lineups, each with a unique expressive urgency. Several tracks feature Coltrane's long-term quartet with pianist Luis Perdomo, bassist Drew Gress, and drummer E.J. Strickland

Skies of America by Ornette Coleman( Recording )

25 editions published between 1972 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 219 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Skies of America is a fully (though controversially) scored concerto grosso, comprised of, as Coleman wrote in liner notes for the original LP release, "melody, harmony, and the movement of forms. . .based on the four clefs bass, treble, tenor and alto. . .meaning to modulate in range without changing keys." Coleman's improvising jazz ensemble is nestled between and overlapping with orchestral passages, with the massive yet sometimes delicate atonal clusters rendering this a particularly American--if surrealistic--symphonic work

New York is now by Ornette Coleman( Recording )

16 editions published between 1960 and 2014 in 3 languages and held by 210 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Finding Forrester : music from the motion picture( Recording )

4 editions published between 2000 and 2001 in No Linguistic content and English and held by 204 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This is our music by Ornette Coleman( Recording )

34 editions published between 1960 and 2018 in 4 languages and held by 204 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Ornette! by Ornette Coleman( Recording )

27 editions published between 1960 and 2015 in 3 languages and held by 191 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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