MU239 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Ornette Coleman, Bass Clarinet, Chromatic Scale
27 Nov 2018
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One of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s. Coleman"s timbre is easily recognized: his crying, nasal sound draws heavily on blues music. Recordings from the early 1960s are credited as being a documentation of the free jazz new music vocabulary. Much the same way armstrong"s and parker"s recordings documented their new styles of jazz in their time periods. Involves two separate quartets; the rhythm sections play simultaneously, and though there is a succession of solos, they are peppered with freeform commentaries by the other horns that often turn into full-scale collective improvisation. Pre-composed material is a series of brief, dissonant fanfares for the horns which serve as interludes between solos. First lp-length improvisation, and unheard of 40 minutes in length. American jazz alto saxophonist, flautist and bass clarinetist. First important bass clarinet soloist in jazz.
