At one time improvisation based on chord changes was considered by innovators like Charlie Parker as liberating. That Coleman later saw it as “rigid” is testament to jazz music’s constant evolution. BTW, listening to free jazz got me my first apartment. Yeah, moms couldn’t stand it so she kicked me out. 😂
As a former sax player, in my high school jazz band I never even heard the name Ornette Coleman spoken. It wasn't until I went to college and hung out with a guy there who played bass and really knew all about NYC jazz that I listened to The Shape of Jazz to Come. It's one of those albums I liked more and more every time I listened to it. Strangely enough, it may have influenced my improvisation too much as I got some weird looks when I would do more experimental solos...let's just say I was no Ornette Coleman as a player, but I still love that album.
In college a friend played me some Ornette on his radio show and I was awestruck. He let me borrow Shape of Jazz and then suggested I find Free Jazz at the campus library. That made for an intense listening experience.
I remember when I first heard The Shape of Jazz to Come, I hated it. But after listening to it for 4 months, I realized it was based on standard song form. I started telling cats that Ornette sounds amazing and they looked at me like I was crazy.
There is perhaps a hidden and potentially irrelevant yet interesting aspect of this idea. There is a composer who wrote a piece for a television show, and the title is "The Shape of Things to Come". The title "The Shape of Jazz to Come" seems significant in context. The composer I am referencing is named Bear McCreary, and the specific show is the reboot of Battlestar Galactica. The interesting aspect is that McCreary apprenticed under the iconic composer Leonard Bernstein. And the originating composer of that tv show was Richard Gibbs. He was the keyboard player for Oingo Boingo. And another member of that band was the esteemed cinematic composer: "Danny Elfman". Music has a way of being.
‘Stone Praise Technique’ is a testament to what Ornette Coleman has been saying for years. Harmolodics truly exists, and this legend has changed the world of Jazz. Ornette Coleman is the greatest ❤
Can you please do a video on how Charlie Haden shaped bass playing in Jazz. My mom was his cleaning lady and I grew up watching him play is Bass and piano I wish I was a lot older to appreciate his pure genius. It was a sad day for my mom and I when he passed away. My he rest in peace.
I know a comment like this is on every video you make but man, your editing gets better and better. This episode was so pleasing and smooth and fun too look at throughout. Thank you for the story!
Polyphonic I've learned so much from your videos. They're so diverse, in depth, and just help me to be more educated about musical history, all while doing it with daughter high quality. Don't you ever stop making these videos
I never heard anyone speak of Ornette. Man what a beautiful name. Been playing Jazz since I began 45 years ago and I was blessed to see Ornette twice live; in London with his symphony and Prime Time at '84 Atlanta Jazz Fest. They kicked Royal ass. I'm still studying him on my own hoping a little will rub off. Ornette Coleman forever!!
Ornette mentored my childhood friend, Casimir Liberski, and he used to host open door non-stop jam sessions in his NYC apartment - my buddy said literally every type of musician used to pass through Ornette's place (Flea from RHCP for example).
When Miles Davis actually went to see Ornette live in NY he recanted his comment about him being "all screwed up inside" and actually became his fan, same thing happened with Charles Mingus, who initially disliked Coleman's work but would later go on to celebrate it.
Laura Nyro seismically influenced songwriting with her revolutionary 1968 art pop album Eli and the Thirteenth Confession in which she broke all the rules - "it blew everybody's mind " Todd Rundgren. One track is entitled Lonely Women, featuring the great Zoot Sims on sax.
It's incredible to think of the far-reaching influence of a single relatively unknown music teacher: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.M._Terrell_High_School#Music_program
It’d be awesome if you made a video about The Band or about The Last Waltz! I’ve been watching a lot of these video essays about the history of music and musicians but haven’t seen any about The Band, one of my favorite groups! Keep up the great work, your content is top notch!!
i remember having to make a presentation about ornette coleman jn music class, i didn't appreciate him as much back then and i was mad someone else in the class got to do one about coltrane :/ i regret not putting more work into it
Would love a closer look on SURF ROCK (especially the king of surf guitar;)). Ps: realy appreciate the time and effort you put into these vids! And those animations are astonishing
This video popped up on my feed today and made me really happy to see that it had reached so many people. I am so into his music, did a whole showcase on it in Brooklyn for my first jazz gig in NYC. Man, you made such a great video! Thank you so much for what you do. Would love to hang and talk some time.
Kudos to doing an essay on Ornette Coleman! Please consider doing more on leading jazz innovators. May I nominate George Russell, a master of alternative modes, who once wrote a song on the topic, titled "The Lydiot."
One minor correction. Ornette did not play a plastic saxophone "throughout his entire career". When he could afford to, to switched to a conventional (brass) Selmer alto. Your video includes pictures of him playing a metal alto, one if which I believe dates to the 1970's.
I was lucky enough to experience Ornette live in Boston. He was with Prime Time, the double quartet,with his son,Denardo as one of the drummers.It was a transformative musical experience, for which I am eternally thankful.
Video is well done. I’m not an Ornette fan, but I respect what he was doing as it was consistent within his own structures that he had developed. And I’ll take a guy like him pushing the envelope over people trying to rehash old shit any day.
Anorher fascinating freejazz guy is Albert Ayler, who combined very simple marching tunes from his childhood with raging wild free improvisation. It sounds very bombastic and spiritual. He was a good friend with the late Coltrane, but he never made it into the relative mainstream that free jazz guys like coleman got in. Free jazz that sounds like no other, very interesting. Highly reccomend.
A lot of jazz players weren’t warm to his playing initially because he often didn’t play in tune and it wasn’t evident that he knew how to play in different keys.
In 1984 Ornette played in Munich. I went to his show never having heard of him. I thought he turned music on its head. Absolute master musician. Mesmerizing.
Truly great that you are hipping people to Ornette. My hero since I was 15, a looonng time ago . Thanks for doing this. One thing though, if I am not mistaken, Ornette's compadres in the original quartet were musicians he knew in Los Angeles and by the time they got to knew York they were fully formed and ready to go. Correct me if I am wrong but that's how I understand it.
This is like the introduction to Coleman's work. For example the quotes in "Eventually" stand out and the listener need to be guided by the theme and quotes, including a quote to "Koko" by one C. Parker.
I was lucky enough to get turned onto Coleman when I was in JHS (76-78) and gorged on his work, Mingus , James Blood Ulmer, Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell, world Saxophone Quartet, art Ensemble of Chicago, Defunkt, Jamaladeen tacuma, David Murray. Lucky enough to see all of these acts in HS and beyond. JFC, NYC was a great place to grow up.
I love your videos. Your graphics are beautifully done, and the information is very informative. This was an artist I was not familiar with, and it was so great to learn about him! Thank you so much. 🙏
"The Shape of Jazz to Come" and its companion album, "Change of the Century," were actually recorded in Los Angeles before Coleman and his bandmates moved to New York. These albums are seminal works in jazz history, but at this late date Coleman's playing sounds less radical and more like a logical evolution of Charlie Parker's style. In fact, if Parker had lived past 1955 it's conceivable he would have grown, shaped and changed his own music in the direction Coleman actually took. Parker was already playing a plastic alto sax in the May 15, 1953 Massey Hall concert in Toronto before Coleman took up the plastic horn.
Thank you sir. Coleman's music is as inspiring as the effort you put into these. Future generations will study both for sure. In your own words, "new art is allowed to thrive". Hell yeah
My first introduction into Free Jazz was John Coltrane "Meditations"! For me, it's still the Pinnacle of this form of expression. And although I am still exploring, I haven't quite reached that height or should I say "High" again...
I like your video. Having said that, one comment Coleman made was that the genre/style was chosen to show why it was better than another style. I couldn’t disagree more. A style is chosen only as a template and a set of constraints so it could be recognised as music and not noise. We can slowly evolve it and push the genre, where an artist’s voice or “sound” is identified but it has nothing to do with a superiority measure.
If I'm not mistaken', Free Jazz features a double quartet, with each quartet in one of the two Stereo Channels. I always thought that was pretty neat 😊
You are correct. One channel had Ornette, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Billy Higgins. The other channel had Eric Dolphy, Freddy Hubbard, Scott Lafaro, and Ed Blackwell. That is if I remember correctly. The cover was a Jackson Pollack painting.
One other point of historical accuracy. Ornette didn't find Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins in NYC. He'd already met and played with them in California, and they came to NYC with him...which I think says something about how important they thought his music was.
When I got Body Meta I listened to it first thing every morning for about 6 months. It was like deciphering a difficult code. After a while, my perception shifted and expanded to a place never before available to my musical experience. How many recordings have actually done that?
I understand artistic experimentation and find it intellectually interesting and another way to express emotion which all music does - just don’t expect to make a living off it.
Hey man, you really hit it out of the park with this video. I love how your wonderful analisis and magical editing go so well togheter. I was wondering if you know about Tom Jobim and would love if you made a video about him
I am a synesthete, and I create music based on what it makes me see and think. People's overall vibe and character have rhythm for me, as do other everyday objects. Everything exudes this intrinsic value of rhythm and sound for me based on what I see and how it progresses over time. This effect bleeds into my philosophy and mood and emotion and mental head spaces. And hearing the way that he describes his Inspirations makes me wonder if he's a synesthete too, but that always seems to happen, like when I first started taking LSD I suddenly thought maybe this person is on LSD or maybe that person is too.. I get the same thing with him regarding synesthesia, and I'm wondering if he was a synesthete, or if it's my egocentric projection.
"The Shape of X to come" is an example of a snowclone. "The Shape of Jazz to Come" isn't the origin of this particular snowclone, but it is responsible for popularizing it to make it a real snowclone. The origin is the sci-fi story "The Shape of Things to Come" by H.G. Wells.
5 essential jazz albums to hear: (1) A Love Supreme (2) Kind of Blue (3) Time Out (4) The Complete Hot 5 and Hot 7 Recordings (5) The Shape of Jazz To Come
Man I’d like to see a polyphonic video on Charles Mingus
I second this
And Thelonious Monk, too!
YES PLEASE
There aren't enough videos about him on TH-cam
Especially Mingus and Monk! !!!! ⭐️ 🌟 💫 🌟 ....and Coltrane! 💫 (If you haven’t done Coltrane already?)
Please make musicians that shaped jazz a running series it’s so insanely good!
yes please!! i've found so much jazz through these videos
Agreed
Yes please!!!!
Yes please. Do a video on Kenny G
Yeeppp
At one time improvisation based on chord changes was considered by innovators like Charlie Parker as liberating. That Coleman later saw it as “rigid” is testament to jazz music’s constant evolution. BTW, listening to free jazz got me my first apartment. Yeah, moms couldn’t stand it so she kicked me out. 😂
Jajajajaja nice story, serves incredibly well for a joke at meetings
Me 15 mins ago: I have never heard of Ornette Coleman
Me now: I need to listen to all his musoc and read every word he has ever said/written
Got the honor of seeing the original Ornette's quartet perform live in a unique reunion in 1987.
Transcendental.
As a former sax player, in my high school jazz band I never even heard the name Ornette Coleman spoken. It wasn't until I went to college and hung out with a guy there who played bass and really knew all about NYC jazz that I listened to The Shape of Jazz to Come. It's one of those albums I liked more and more every time I listened to it. Strangely enough, it may have influenced my improvisation too much as I got some weird looks when I would do more experimental solos...let's just say I was no Ornette Coleman as a player, but I still love that album.
In college a friend played me some Ornette on his radio show and I was awestruck. He let me borrow Shape of Jazz and then suggested I find Free Jazz at the campus library. That made for an intense listening experience.
I cannot express enough how I love this channel. Wonderful work every time. Makes me love music even more and that's... wow
Polyphonic never fails to show me how many unique legends I never would have known about otherwise. I love it.
Absolutely agree.
You never would have heard of ornette coleman without this video? That’s truly unfortunate
@@JordanClifford wow aren't you just so cool
Yup
They know how dig up buried treasures.
I remember when I first heard The Shape of Jazz to Come, I hated it. But after listening to it for 4 months, I realized it was based on standard song form. I started telling cats that Ornette sounds amazing and they looked at me like I was crazy.
They probably looked at you like you were crazy because you were talking to them, a group of cats and they knew better to indulge you.
You did an absolutely incredible job analyzing Ornette Coleman’s music. Coleman is to jazz what Bartok and Schoenberg are to classical music.
There is perhaps a hidden and potentially irrelevant yet interesting aspect of this idea.
There is a composer who wrote a piece for a television show, and the title is "The Shape of Things to Come".
The title "The Shape of Jazz to Come" seems significant in context. The composer I am referencing is named Bear McCreary, and the specific show is the reboot of Battlestar Galactica.
The interesting aspect is that McCreary apprenticed under the iconic composer Leonard Bernstein. And the originating composer of that tv show was Richard Gibbs. He was the keyboard player for Oingo Boingo. And another member of that band was the esteemed cinematic composer: "Danny Elfman".
Music has a way of being.
‘Stone Praise Technique’ is a testament to what Ornette Coleman has been saying for years. Harmolodics truly exists, and this legend has changed the world of Jazz. Ornette Coleman is the greatest ❤
Your editing is insane, props to you
Can you please do a video on how Charlie Haden shaped bass playing in Jazz. My mom was his cleaning lady and I grew up watching him play is Bass and piano I wish I was a lot older to appreciate his pure genius. It was a sad day for my mom and I when he passed away. My he rest in peace.
His work with Pat Metheny in the eighties was amazing. Guitar and saxophone together are certainly very intriguing to listen to.
I know a comment like this is on every video you make but man, your editing gets better and better. This episode was so pleasing and smooth and fun too look at throughout. Thank you for the story!
Polyphonic I've learned so much from your videos. They're so diverse, in depth, and just help me to be more educated about musical history, all while doing it with daughter high quality. Don't you ever stop making these videos
I never heard anyone speak of Ornette. Man what a beautiful name. Been playing Jazz since I began 45 years ago and I was blessed to see Ornette twice live; in London with his symphony and Prime Time at '84 Atlanta Jazz Fest. They kicked Royal ass. I'm still studying him on my own hoping a little will rub off. Ornette Coleman forever!!
Ornette mentored my childhood friend, Casimir Liberski, and he used to host open door non-stop jam sessions in his NYC apartment - my buddy said literally every type of musician used to pass through Ornette's place (Flea from RHCP for example).
When Miles Davis actually went to see Ornette live in NY he recanted his comment about him being "all screwed up inside" and actually became his fan, same thing happened with Charles Mingus, who initially disliked Coleman's work but would later go on to celebrate it.
Miles telling someone “screwed up
Inside” is like the pot calling the kettle black
Fool!
Max Roach, who punched Ornette, when he first played in NY, later accepted "free jazz" playing with Cecil Taylor and others.
Miles became more of a fan of his Prime Time band than the NY quartet, he mentioned it in Autobiography
@@rhythmking10 I heard that many people hated Mile's On The Corner when it came out. I find that astounding!!!
Never expected Derrida to come up in one of these videos
Laura Nyro seismically influenced songwriting with her revolutionary 1968 art pop album Eli and the Thirteenth Confession in which she broke all the rules - "it blew everybody's mind " Todd Rundgren. One track is entitled Lonely Women, featuring the great Zoot Sims on sax.
Let me just say i love everything about this channel. Truly underrated and iconic literally nothing like it.
I've never been a fan of Coleman, but after watching this I intend to take a deep dive. Bravo!
Great Video! I had Free Jazz when I was a teen back in the 80s... Ornette and Peter Brotzmann were my favourite crazy jazzers
Jaco Pastorius next!
We're talking about jazz though
He was a jazz player, he jus didn’t always play jazz. Arguably, just like Coleman
Those skillshare classes are paying off. This video is beautiful!
Eric dolphy. Next please!!
It's incredible to think of the far-reaching influence of a single relatively unknown music teacher:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.M._Terrell_High_School#Music_program
Okay, you deserve way more attention for what you do! Your channel is one of my favourites. Keep up the work!
Last time I was this early jazz hadn’t even taken off
It’d be awesome if you made a video about The Band or about The Last Waltz! I’ve been watching a lot of these video essays about the history of music and musicians but haven’t seen any about The Band, one of my favorite groups! Keep up the great work, your content is top notch!!
i remember having to make a presentation about ornette coleman jn music class, i didn't appreciate him as much back then and i was mad someone else in the class got to do one about coltrane :/ i regret not putting more work into it
Would love a closer look on SURF ROCK (especially the king of surf guitar;)).
Ps: realy appreciate the time and effort you put into these vids! And those animations are astonishing
He did a good analysis of “good vibrations”.
@@TK-fk4po yeah definitely. Would love his take on Dick Dale, the surfaris, etc. or the genre as a whole
How Miles Davis shaped Jazz Fusion next please
This video popped up on my feed today and made me really happy to see that it had reached so many people. I am so into his music, did a whole showcase on it in Brooklyn for my first jazz gig in NYC. Man, you made such a great video! Thank you so much for what you do. Would love to hang and talk some time.
what do you mean did a showcase on it?
7:03
Ornette Coleman has acquired a taste for...
FREE FORM JAZZ
Kudos to doing an essay on Ornette Coleman!
Please consider doing more on leading jazz innovators.
May I nominate George Russell, a master of alternative modes, who once wrote a song on the topic, titled "The Lydiot."
George Russell great composer Essential !
I have many Ornette Coleman albums. Even i bought Colemans 6 cd box set which i love
Wow, you did a beautiful job on this vid. Perfect script, perfect audio, perfect editing, perfect art, Wow.
One minor correction. Ornette did not play a plastic saxophone "throughout his entire career". When he could afford to, to switched to a conventional (brass) Selmer alto. Your video includes pictures of him playing a metal alto, one if which I believe dates to the 1970's.
Thank you, this was beautiful !
Thank you for making this video about one of my heroes. More people should know him and your efforts on this platform are really helping the cause!
I was lucky enough to experience Ornette live in Boston. He was with Prime Time, the double quartet,with his son,Denardo as one of the drummers.It was a transformative musical experience, for which I am eternally thankful.
Please submit your Catalogue .not iPad savvy
I was there.
Are you the young guy sitting next to me?
Video is well done. I’m not an Ornette fan, but I respect what he was doing as it was consistent within his own structures that he had developed. And I’ll take a guy like him pushing the envelope over people trying to rehash old shit any day.
Anorher fascinating freejazz guy is Albert Ayler, who combined very simple marching tunes from his childhood with raging wild free improvisation. It sounds very bombastic and spiritual. He was a good friend with the late Coltrane, but he never made it into the relative mainstream that free jazz guys like coleman got in. Free jazz that sounds like no other, very interesting. Highly reccomend.
Dude, that's insanely good, keep on with this amazing videos!
A lot of jazz players weren’t warm to his playing initially because he often didn’t play in tune and it wasn’t evident that he knew how to play in different keys.
In 1984 Ornette played in Munich. I went to his show never having heard of him. I thought he turned music on its head. Absolute master musician. Mesmerizing.
Yo you're really
at your A game!
Thanks to this
I'm checking
out Ornette Coleman!
Job well done !
Truly great that you are hipping people to Ornette. My hero since I was 15, a looonng time ago . Thanks for doing this. One thing though, if I am not mistaken, Ornette's compadres in the original quartet were musicians he knew in Los Angeles and by the time they got to knew York they were fully formed and ready to go. Correct me if I am wrong but that's how I understand it.
You're correct. They were playing together in the late 1950s.
This is like the introduction to Coleman's work. For example the quotes in "Eventually" stand out and the listener need to be guided by the theme and quotes, including a quote to "Koko" by one C. Parker.
I was lucky enough to get turned onto Coleman when I was in JHS (76-78) and gorged on his work, Mingus , James Blood Ulmer, Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell, world Saxophone Quartet, art Ensemble of Chicago, Defunkt, Jamaladeen tacuma, David Murray. Lucky enough to see all of these acts in HS and beyond.
JFC, NYC was a great place to grow up.
Love this video. To quote an Ornette Coleman album title, something else!
That's a Cannonball Adderly album title.
The title should have been How Ornette Coleman Shaped jazz To Come
Its crazy bc Eventually sounds kinda tame considering the Free Jazz that was about to hit the scene lmao
I love your videos. Your graphics are beautifully done, and the information is very informative. This was an artist I was not familiar with, and it was so great to learn about him! Thank you so much. 🙏
"The Shape of Jazz to Come" and its companion album, "Change of the Century," were actually recorded in Los Angeles before Coleman and his bandmates moved to New York. These albums are seminal works in jazz history, but at this late date Coleman's playing sounds less radical and more like a logical evolution of Charlie Parker's style. In fact, if Parker had lived past 1955 it's conceivable he would have grown, shaped and changed his own music in the direction Coleman actually took. Parker was already playing a plastic alto sax in the May 15, 1953 Massey Hall concert in Toronto before Coleman took up the plastic horn.
I'd like to see a Rat Pack video at some point. Thanks Keep up the great work
Great video! Would love one on Sun Ra.
I've been mesmerized by the artwork behind the figures and pictures. Whose art is it? I'd like to see more of that art!
I'm only 2 minutes into the video but you've made a cracking job evoking the cover arts with the visuals.
Man please make a polyphonic video on Michael Brecker, Chick Corea and Jamiroquai
I had no idea he made an album with a 10 year old. Listening to it now and it sounds like Jandek or the Shaggs and I kind of love it.
Thank you for this video. It's my second time watching it, you introduced me to one of my favorite albums.
Nice video, but I'm disappointed you didn't mention his atonal orchestral album Skies of America or his contribution to the soundtrack of Naked Lunch.
but in the end, it still swings :) Love the "The shape of jazz to come "
I love these jazz videos! Please keep making em'. I adore your effort visually, through content and aurally!
Please send us your complete catalogue . I tried to seek your channel ,finding rpn ,but not musical episodes
I love your videos. How about one on Zappa? You know you want to...
Would love a similar video on dolphy and out to lunch, probably my favorite jazz album.
Great video! It really makes me view music in a new light.
Lou Reed's favorite song of all time was "Lonely Woman", and he idolized Coleman and other free jazz guys like Cecil Taylor.
Thank you sir. Coleman's music is as inspiring as the effort you put into these. Future generations will study both for sure. In your own words, "new art is allowed to thrive". Hell yeah
We need a video on Dolphy.
What's needed to listen to O.C. is a special ear and the special where for all not to bang your head against the wall.
Thank you so much!
Awesome video. I learned so much and have been looking for a video of this caliper.
Awesome
My first introduction into Free Jazz was John Coltrane "Meditations"! For me, it's still the Pinnacle of this form of expression. And although I am still exploring, I haven't quite reached that height or should I say "High" again...
I like your video. Having said that, one comment Coleman made was that the genre/style was chosen to show why it was better than another style. I couldn’t disagree more. A style is chosen only as a template and a set of constraints so it could be recognised as music and not noise. We can slowly evolve it and push the genre, where an artist’s voice or “sound” is identified but it has nothing to do with a superiority measure.
I don't really know what to say about this... Always loved Ornette Coleman and also Albert Ayler.
If I'm not mistaken', Free Jazz features a double quartet, with each quartet in one of the two Stereo Channels. I always thought that was pretty neat 😊
You are correct. One channel had Ornette, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Billy Higgins. The other channel had Eric Dolphy, Freddy Hubbard, Scott Lafaro, and Ed Blackwell. That is if I remember correctly. The cover was a Jackson Pollack painting.
There are even extreme metal groups drawing inspiration from Coleman's work, two being The Centipede Abyss and another being Encenathrakh.
Do a how Tony Williams revolutionized jazz and rock drumming!
One other point of historical accuracy. Ornette didn't find Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins in NYC. He'd already met and played with them in California, and they came to NYC with him...which I think says something about how important they thought his music was.
And recorded with them. I think they did 3 albums prior to NY.
@@farshimelt Yep.
He really liked the Master Musicians of Jajouka!
When I got Body Meta I listened to it first thing every morning for about 6 months. It was like deciphering a difficult code. After a while, my perception shifted and expanded to a place never before available to my musical experience. How many recordings have actually done that?
This man gives so much nuances on music that people really want to push their listening boundaries. You achieved this position, you deserve it!
I understand artistic experimentation and find it intellectually interesting and another way to express emotion which all music does - just don’t expect to make a living off it.
Hey man, you really hit it out of the park with this video. I love how your wonderful analisis and magical editing go so well togheter. I was wondering if you know about Tom Jobim and would love if you made a video about him
I'm glad I got to see Ornette and Don Cherry and Mingus and Cecil...
I am a synesthete, and I create music based on what it makes me see and think. People's overall vibe and character have rhythm for me, as do other everyday objects. Everything exudes this intrinsic value of rhythm and sound for me based on what I see and how it progresses over time. This effect bleeds into my philosophy and mood and emotion and mental head spaces. And hearing the way that he describes his Inspirations makes me wonder if he's a synesthete too, but that always seems to happen, like when I first started taking LSD I suddenly thought maybe this person is on LSD or maybe that person is too.. I get the same thing with him regarding synesthesia, and I'm wondering if he was a synesthete, or if it's my egocentric projection.
Improvising during a march is something I would love to see loool.
Ornette Coleman's music simply speaks to me. It always has. It probably always will.
It's kind of interesting and liberating to hear his philosophy.
These album titles, especially for jazz music, are the creation of the record companies to sell it.
"The Shape of X to come" is an example of a snowclone. "The Shape of Jazz to Come" isn't the origin of this particular snowclone, but it is responsible for popularizing it to make it a real snowclone. The origin is the sci-fi story "The Shape of Things to Come" by H.G. Wells.
Miles Davis or John Coltrane?
Yes
Yes
Yes
We need to do a video about how Miles shaped Jazz Fusion
Charles Mingus
Thelonious Monk! Next! Please!
I’d like to see one on when Miles Davis went electric
7:13 sounds like my brain feels like when I wake up in the morning, screaming for coffee
5 essential jazz albums to hear: (1) A Love Supreme (2) Kind of Blue (3) Time Out (4) The Complete Hot 5 and Hot 7 Recordings (5) The Shape of Jazz To Come