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Ornette Coleman - Collection (1959-2019)

Ornette Coleman - Collection (1959-2019)

BAND/ARTIST: Ornette Coleman

Biography
One of the most important (and controversial) innovators of the jazz avant-garde, Ornette Coleman gained both loyal followers and lifelong detractors when he seemed to burst on the scene in 1959 fully formed. Although he, and Don Cherry in his original quartet, played opening and closing melodies together, their solos dispensed altogether with chordal improvisation and harmony, instead playing quite freely off of the mood of the theme. Coleman's tone (which purposely wavered in pitch) rattled some listeners, and his solos were emotional and followed their own logic. In time, his approach would be quite influential, and the quartet's early records still sound advanced many decades later.

Unfortunately, Ornette Coleman's early development was not documented. Originally inspired by Charlie Parker, he started playing alto at 14 and tenor two years later. His early experiences were in R&B bands in Texas, including those of Red Connors and Pee Wee Crayton, but his attempts to play in an original style were consistently met with hostility both by audiences and fellow musicians. Coleman moved to Los Angeles in the early '50s, where he worked as an elevator operator while studying music books. He met kindred spirits along the way in Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, Ed Blackwell, Bobby Bradford, Charles Moffett, and Billy Higgins, but it was not until 1958 (after many unsuccessful attempts to sit in with top L.A. musicians) that Coleman had a nucleus of musicians who could play his music. He appeared as part of Paul Bley's quintet for a short time at the Hillcrest Club (which is documented on live records), and recorded two very interesting albums for Contemporary. With the assistance of John Lewis, Coleman and Cherry attended the Lenox School of Jazz in 1959, and had an extended stay at the Five Spot in New York. This engagement alerted the jazz world toward the radical new music, and each night the audience was filled with curious musicians who alternately labeled Coleman a genius or a fraud.

During 1959-1961, Ornette Coleman recorded a series of classic and somewhat startling quartet albums for Atlantic (all of which have been reissued on a six-CD set by Rhino). With Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, Scott LaFaro or Jimmy Garrison on bass, and Billy Higgins or Ed Blackwell on drums, Coleman created music that would greatly affect most of the other advanced improvisers of the 1960s, including John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, and the free jazz players of the mid-'60s. One set, a nearly 40-minute jam called Free Jazz (which other than a few brief themes was basically a pulse-driven group free improvisation) had Coleman, Cherry, Haden, LaFaro, Higgins, Blackwell, Dolphy, and Freddie Hubbard forming a double quartet.

In 1962, Ornette Coleman, feeling that he was worth much more money than the clubs and his label were paying him, surprised the jazz world by retiring for a period. He took up trumpet and violin (playing the latter as if it were a drum) and, in 1965, he recorded a few brilliant sets on all his instruments with a particularly strong trio featuring bassist David Izenzon and drummer Charles Moffett. Later in the decade, Coleman had a quartet with the very complementary tenor Dewey Redman, Haden, and either Blackwell or his young son Denardo Coleman on drums. In addition, Coleman wrote some atonal and wholly-composed classical works for chamber groups, and had a few reunions with Don Cherry.

In the early '70s, Ornette Coleman entered the second half of his career. He formed a "double quartet" comprised of two guitars, two electric bassists, two drummers, and his own alto. The group, called "Prime Time," featured dense, noisy, and often-witty ensembles in which all of the musicians are supposed to have an equal role, but the leader's alto always ended up standing out. He now called his music harmolodics (symbolizing the equal importance of harmony, melody, and rhythm), although free funk (combining together loose funk rhythms and free improvising) probably fits better; among his sidemen in Prime Time were drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson and bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma, in addition to his son Denardo.

Prime Time was a major (if somewhat unacknowledged) influence on the M-Base music of Steve Coleman and Greg Osby. Pat Metheny (a lifelong Ornette admirer) collaborated with Coleman on the intense Song X, Jerry Garcia played third guitar on one recording, and Ornette Coleman had irregular reunions with his original quartet members in the 1980s.

Ornette Coleman, who recorded for Verve in the '90s, has remained true to his highly original vision throughout his career and, although not technically a virtuoso and still considered controversial, is an obvious giant of jazz. ~ Scott Yanow



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1959 The Shape of Jazz To Come (Mono) 16-44.1 FLAC.rar - 127.7 MB
1965 At The Golden Circle Stockholm Volume One 24-192 FLAC.rar - 1.4 GB
1972 Skies Of America 16-44.1 FLAC.rar - 228.0 MB
1982 Of Human Feelings 16-44.1 FLAC.rar - 209.8 MB
1982 The Complete Science Fiction Sessions 16-44.1 FLAC.rar - 694.6 MB
1987 The Shape of Jazz To Come (Mono) 24-96 FLAC.rar - 400.5 MB
1988 Virgin Beauty 16-44.1 FLAC.rar - 251.5 MB
1990 Love Call 16-44.1 FLAC.rar - 293.1 MB
2000 Ken Burns Jazz-Ornette Coleman 16-44.1 FLAC.rar - 448.5 MB
2002 At The Golden Circle 16-44.1 FLAC.rar - 485.7 MB
2003 Ornette! 16-44.1 FLAC.rar - 348.0 MB
2003 Twins 16-44.1 FLAC.rar - 266.5 MB
2004 Ornette On Tenor 16-44.1 FLAC.rar - 244.9 MB
2004 The Best Of Ornette Coleman The Blue Note Years 16-44.1 FLAC.rar - 361.1 MB
2005 Beauty Is A Rare Thing- The Complete Atlantic Recordings 16-44.1 FLAC.rar - 2.4 GB
2005 Change Of The Century 16-44.1 FLAC.rar - 238.4 MB
2005 The Art Of The Improvisers 16-44.1 FLAC.rar - 334.5 MB
2005 This Is Our Music 16-44.1 FLAC.rar - 212.0 MB
2007 To Whom Keeps A Record 16-44.1 FLAC.rar - 219.5 MB
2008 Broken Shadows 16-44.1 FLAC.rar - 229.6 MB
2009 The Best Of Ornette Coleman 16-44.1 FLAC.rar - 242.6 MB
_16-44.1_FLAC.rar.html]2011 Something Else!!! The Music of Ornette Coleman [Original Jazz Classics Remasters] 16-44.1 FLAC.rar - 271.6 MB
2012 At The Golden Circle Stockholm Vol. 2 24-192 FLAC.rar - 1.6 GB
2012 Town Hall (1962) 16-44.1 FLAC.rar - 327.5 MB
2013 Friends And Neighbors - Ornette Live At Prince Street 16-44.1 FLAC.rar - 241.9 MB
2013 New York Is Now! 24-192 FLAC.rar - 1.6 GB
2015 The Empty Foxhole 16-44.1 FLAC.rar - 216.5 MB
2018 Come Sunrise 16-44.1 FLAC.rar - 476.9 MB
2018 The Atlantic Years (Remastered) 16-44.1 FLAC.rar - 2.3 GB
2019 Change Of The Century 24-44.1 FLAC.rar - 426.8 MB
2019 Free Jazz 24-44.1 FLAC.rar - 602.0 MB
2019 Ornette! 24-44.1 FLAC.rar - 360.7 MB
2019 Something Else !!!! 24-44.1 FLAC.rar - 452.9 MB
2019 The Shape Of Jazz To Come 16-44.1 FLAC.rar - 225.1 MB
2019 The Shape Of Jazz To Come 24-44.1 FLAC.rar - 1.1 GB
2019 This Is Our Music 24-44.1 FLAC.rar - 425.3 MB
2019 Tomorrow Is the Question! 24-44.1 FLAC.rar - 446.1 MB

2018 The Atlantic Years (Remastered) 24-96 FLAC.part1.rar - 3.0 GB
2018 The Atlantic Years (Remastered) 24-96 FLAC.part2.rar - 3.0 GB
2018 The Atlantic Years (Remastered) 24-96 FLAC.part3.rar - 2.6 GB


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2011 Something Else!!! The Music of Ornette Coleman [Original Jazz Classics Remasters
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