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18 March 2013

Ornette Coleman via Shirley Clarke via Ross Lipman

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A screening of “Ornette: Made in America” a documentary by Shirley Clarke this coming weekend at the Billy Wilder Theater hosted by UCLA Film & Television Archive. [...]

4 November 2010

Ornette was fantastic. Frances Davis was also fantastic.

The Genius of Miles Davis

En route to UCLA for a fantastic Ornette Coleman concert, we had an unexpected encounter with jazz history. [...]

17 October 2010

Ornette Coleman, at 80, can still change the way you listen . . . or even scare you

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Ornette Coleman, who returns to UCLA Live on November 3, is one of the few remaining legends of jazz who walks among us. He’s usually credited with creating “free jazz.” In fact, a variety of free jazz antecedents preceded him. What Coleman created, as part of his truly artistic world view, was a new way of listening, and a new way for players to interact. He’s stuck to that view through thick and thin; it’s all he knows. [...]