Dancing in your head. (jazz musician Ornette Coleman )

From: The Nation | Date: August 12, 1991| Author: Santoro, Gene | Copyright information

Folks who write about jazz have certain conceits they're fond of. One is the homology between the way musicians talk or act offstage and the way they play. Often enough it works. But in the case of Ornette Coleman, the brilliant pioneer who's sketched the main lines of jazz exploration over the past thirty-plus years, it breaks down. Yes, he often speaks in gnomic utterances worth of the Delphic oracle, and he relenthlessly develops this ideas concentrically instead of plotting...

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