Ornette Coleman: Sound Grammar
CML call number: CD JAZZ Coleman
Contents: Intro -- Jordan -- Sleep talking -- Turnaround -- Matador -- Waiting for you -- Call to duty -- Once only -- Songx; all songs composed and arranged by Ornette Coleman. Recorded October 14, 2005.
Steve Futterman wrote in the New Yorker: "The concept here isn't quite new: in the late sixties, Coleman had a quartet with two acoustic bassists. Still, returning to the plucked-and-bowed setup brings out a coiled lyricism in the saxophonist that shakes up romps like 'Matador' and his 1959 blues number 'Turnabout' (which he has retitled 'Turnaround') and brings a wrenching emotion to the ballad 'Sleep Talking'" ("Jazz Notes: Best of 2006," 1/22/07, p. 14).
From the notes by Ornette Coleman: "Sounds found in the expression of music, vocal and instrumental, are the global styles or forms such as jazz, opera, country, classical and other musical genres, all equal in the concept of ideas. Sound has a specific meaning when used in different dialects. The culture of civilization when expressed in different tongues identifies the differences."
Update, 4/18/07: The New York Times reported April 16 that Sound Grammar won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Music. "Elastic and bracing, with two acoustic basses and much collective improvisation, the music harks back to the 1960s records that made him famous. 'I’m tearing and I’m surprised and happy — and I’m glad I’m an American,' [Coleman] said. 'And I’m glad to be a human being who’s a part of making American qualities more eternal.'"
Contents: Intro -- Jordan -- Sleep talking -- Turnaround -- Matador -- Waiting for you -- Call to duty -- Once only -- Songx; all songs composed and arranged by Ornette Coleman. Recorded October 14, 2005.
Steve Futterman wrote in the New Yorker: "The concept here isn't quite new: in the late sixties, Coleman had a quartet with two acoustic bassists. Still, returning to the plucked-and-bowed setup brings out a coiled lyricism in the saxophonist that shakes up romps like 'Matador' and his 1959 blues number 'Turnabout' (which he has retitled 'Turnaround') and brings a wrenching emotion to the ballad 'Sleep Talking'" ("Jazz Notes: Best of 2006," 1/22/07, p. 14).
From the notes by Ornette Coleman: "Sounds found in the expression of music, vocal and instrumental, are the global styles or forms such as jazz, opera, country, classical and other musical genres, all equal in the concept of ideas. Sound has a specific meaning when used in different dialects. The culture of civilization when expressed in different tongues identifies the differences."
Update, 4/18/07: The New York Times reported April 16 that Sound Grammar won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Music. "Elastic and bracing, with two acoustic basses and much collective improvisation, the music harks back to the 1960s records that made him famous. 'I’m tearing and I’m surprised and happy — and I’m glad I’m an American,' [Coleman] said. 'And I’m glad to be a human being who’s a part of making American qualities more eternal.'"
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