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F ORNETTE SET JAZZ FREE JAZZ SET ORNETTE about an emotional texture than a proper proper a than texture emotional an about peals in the sax solo became more and more and squawksabstract where point the was come oŸ, it is a shaking experience)…” This these (when run human-voice blistering a Yorker, “interrupt himself furiously, sail into in Balliett Whitneyway,” wrote simple disarmingly a in theme a state will late ’50s who “got” him instantly: “Coleman the ears of 1955. He simply would not budge. for weird and“out” atonal, too wassoloing by age 25, Coleman’s improvised saxophone sicians was massive.” Why was this? Because “The rejection of Ornette by Los Angeles mu- As Coleman biographer John Litweiler put it: Malamo. Many hated his playing. the California Club, the Hillcrest Club, Club mid-’50s: the in L.A. dotted that clubs jazz his hand sitting in with other players, in the tried he breakthrough, his Before town. in an elevator operator and at other cheap jobs touring with a Texas singer in 1950. town. Earlier he’d gotten a taste of L.A. while Fort Worth, living at the Morris Hotel down- from 1953 in L.A. He’dtomoved stubborn. soft-voiced, gently eccentric and musically he was able to play standard chord changes. think he’s jiving, baby”), openly wondering if time (swing-era trumpeter Roy Eldridge: “I how older jazzmen reacted to Coleman at the to worry the listeners of 1959. certain points becoming just chaotic enough at solos sax altoColeman’s “free” with but — a kind of stretched-out, easygoing bebop, relatively arenow ears the and ’59, easyon ’58 in Angeles Los in recorded LPs, These and Else! thing Records):Contemporary label, jazz Coleman’s first two albums (issued on an L.A. on launchedwas earthquake an like world unleashed a simpler name: free jazz. nette Coleman gave the burst of freedom he’d New Thing” in 1961, but L.A. transplant Or week was quick to label the movement “the provisedemotionallyand explosive. that was wildly dissonant, rough, freely im- extremely radical direction — into something “America’spushedan who ciansin music” composer Sun Ra among them. JohnColtrane Braxton,Anthonyand man, Cole- OrnetteAyler, Albert Shepp, Archie 1960s: the in geniuses African-American of generation rebellious a by created was | BY TONY MOST hr wr aatgre rtc i the in critics avant-garde were There For a few lonely years he worked in L.A. as was He 29. at famous up woke Coleman about read to amusing it’sretrospect, In musical the shook that revolution The musi- jazz young (mostly) were These Music during Black History Month Check out Coleman’s innovative music forgotten) American music music American forgotten) (and challenging and citing ex- most the of Some 1950s. born in Los Angeles in the late century revolution in jazz was mid- radical a but it, about much know Americans ew Tomorrow Is the Question the TomorrowIs // RO

M The New New The Some News- - - . creeds (by any means necessary), today. and hues colors, all Americansof heardby be to need musicians freedom-pushing have stood the test of time. that, and hundreds of great recordings that thing since Duke Ellington or Charlie Parker; a black musical art as sophisticated as any high art form with an intense emotional core, shreds, but in the process thousand they a created a into new, envelope” the “pushed toughing it out with teaching gigs.) and composer-pianist Horace Tapscott, both Coleman’s friend, trumpeter Bobby Bradford, 1965 Watts riots, save for local stalwarts like the after artists free-jazz to nothing meant increasingly L.A. rock-capital(Meanwhile, noticed. barely public American wider the catch up with him (on the East Coast), though it’s going to be done now.” The jazz world did consequence who arrive to say, “This is how Coleman was one of those rare innovators ago), of long from transplant L.A. (another ably requires four ears to listen to it. double quartet record, to Poets and Writers), and in 1962 recorded a Schoenberg-like string quartets (Dedication Meditations). his symphonic forest-of-saxophones album, hear Coltrane;even (and Ayler Albert ist atonal “extremists” such as tenor saxophon- unleashed, made even more challenging by had himself he revolution dissonant the in doubt no up caught Circle), Golden the on playing violin free-improvised challengingly “abstract” (hear his scratchy, ranging became even more free-form, more for Atlantic: dence? It’s in the title he gave his next record, Coleman’sconfi- was strong Howmelody. City College). the bass clarinet (he’d studied music at L.A. brilliant prince of musical bop geometry on Dolphy, who would emerge as the famously neh Cherry), who’d grown up in Watts; Eric trumpeter Don Cherry (father of singer Ne- young L.A.: mid-1950s in people right the improviseandmiraculouslywith, hefound Ornette Coleman and his generation of of generation his and Coleman Ornette have may jazz free of heavyweights The Schoenberg composer radical the Like wrote Coleman York, New to Moving As time went on, Coleman’s playing and ar Coleman needed like-minded explorers to The Shape of Jazz to Come .

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