A Reasoned Cacophony: Ornette Coleman - "Free Jazz"

A Reasoned Cacophony: Ornette Coleman - "Free Jazz"

Ornette Coleman's radical ideas about melody and pitch in jazz have been so thoroughly absorbed by the jazz establishment that his early musical explorations simply seem like a natural progression of where jazz was headed at the time, and where much of it is today. There is, of course, one glaring exception to this rule, an album by Coleman that even today defies categorization and eludes easy explanation: Free Jazz. 

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Jackie McLean - "New And Old Gospel"

Jackie McLean - "New And Old Gospel"

Jackie McLean's career during the golden age of jazz is practically a roadmap to how the genre moved from hard bop to post bop and finally ended up at the avant garde that was to become the "new thing" in jazz. In 1967 McLean would complete the circle by teaming up with none other than Ornette Coleman, the innovator of the Free Jazz movement that shook up the jazz establishment. 

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