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What it is and what it isn't, January 7, 2002 By This review is from: Free Jazz (Deluxe Edition) (Audio CD) Let's get rid of some myths about this great CD.First of all, "Free Jazz" is NOT CHAOS. Listening to this all the way proves it; "First Take" is the same piece, and if you compare "Free Jazz" and "First Take," you will see similarities and structure. So let's get rid of the idea that this was "totally improvised" first. There is an underlying structure to this piece, and you can figure it out if you try.
Secondly: it is NOT ATONAL. What is happening here is that several different melodies are going on all at the same time, but each melody that each musician plays is meant to interact with the melodies the other musicians are playing. There are no chords, and there is no ESTABLISHED, FORMAL tonal center. But just because there is no FORMAL tonal center, doesn't mean there isn't one.
Third: It is NOT AMELODIC. There are lots of melodies here. If you listen to it, you can find lots of melody. They may be odd melodies, but... Read more
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not the place to start with Ornette!, February 7, 2001 By This review is from: Free Jazz (Deluxe Edition) (Audio CD) I write with the new Ornette listener in mind -- don't be misled by the title, this is not the place to start with Ornette (let alone the Rosetta Stone!). "Free Jazz" is a very interesting experiment with a double quartet, but it does not measure up to Ornette's quartet recordings for Atlantic. "The Shape of Jazz to Come," "Change of the Century," "This Is Our Music" (available on import), "On Tenor," and "Ornette!" are all superb, and any of them (but of course "Shape" has pride of place because it was first) would be much better places to start listening to Ornette Coleman. The splendid 6 disc box "Beauty Is a Rare Thing" includes everything Ornette recorded for Atlantic from 1959-1961, including both versions of "Free Jazz," but presumably if you're just checking out his music you're not going to go straight for the box. My recommendation would be, check out for starters "Shape,"... Read more
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful No one had reviewed this yet? I am very surprised., July 13, 1999 By A Customer
This review is from: Free Jazz (Deluxe Edition) (Audio CD) "Free Jazz" is not an easy piece of music to listen to. I am a very big fan of jazz in the avante garde and love "the new thing" on Impulse! in the late 1960's. I am a fan of Coltrane, Kirk, Dolphy and Mingus and embrace their experiments. For me, Coleman is a challenge.Coltrane's work on "Meditations" follows a developmental process, a prayer, a mini symphony with movements that indicate mood. I am drawn to this piece because my soul can follow along with it, I am catapulted into different emmotions and my being must adjust as I go. For "Free Jazz" everything is completely different.
For me, "Free Jazz" is something radically different from the fairly melodic chaos of Mingus, a melodic composer always! "Free Jazz" lives in the realm of Cecil Taylor and the "Interstellar Space" of 1967 Coltrane, not the emmotional movements of a philosphical Coltrane or a gospel tinged Mingus. This is almost like... Read more
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| 121 of 123 people found the following review helpful What it is and what it isn't, By This review is from: Free Jazz (Deluxe Edition) (Audio CD) Let's get rid of some myths about this great CD.First of all, "Free Jazz" is NOT CHAOS. Listening to this all the way proves it; "First Take" is the same piece, and if you compare "Free Jazz" and "First Take," you will see similarities and structure. So let's get rid of the idea that this was "totally improvised" first. There is an underlying structure to this piece, and you can figure it out if you try. Secondly: it is NOT ATONAL. What is happening here is that several different melodies are going on all at the same time, but each melody that each musician plays is meant to interact with the melodies the other musicians are playing. There are no chords, and there is no ESTABLISHED, FORMAL tonal center. But just because there is no FORMAL tonal center, doesn't mean there isn't one. Third: It is NOT AMELODIC. There are lots of melodies here. If you listen to it, you can find lots of melody. They may be odd melodies, but... Read more 19 of 20 people found the following review helpful not the place to start with Ornette!, By This review is from: Free Jazz (Deluxe Edition) (Audio CD) I write with the new Ornette listener in mind -- don't be misled by the title, this is not the place to start with Ornette (let alone the Rosetta Stone!). "Free Jazz" is a very interesting experiment with a double quartet, but it does not measure up to Ornette's quartet recordings for Atlantic. "The Shape of Jazz to Come," "Change of the Century," "This Is Our Music" (available on import), "On Tenor," and "Ornette!" are all superb, and any of them (but of course "Shape" has pride of place because it was first) would be much better places to start listening to Ornette Coleman. The splendid 6 disc box "Beauty Is a Rare Thing" includes everything Ornette recorded for Atlantic from 1959-1961, including both versions of "Free Jazz," but presumably if you're just checking out his music you're not going to go straight for the box. My recommendation would be, check out for starters "Shape,"... Read more 14 of 14 people found the following review helpful No one had reviewed this yet? I am very surprised., By A Customer This review is from: Free Jazz (Deluxe Edition) (Audio CD) "Free Jazz" is not an easy piece of music to listen to. I am a very big fan of jazz in the avante garde and love "the new thing" on Impulse! in the late 1960's. I am a fan of Coltrane, Kirk, Dolphy and Mingus and embrace their experiments. For me, Coleman is a challenge.Coltrane's work on "Meditations" follows a developmental process, a prayer, a mini symphony with movements that indicate mood. I am drawn to this piece because my soul can follow along with it, I am catapulted into different emmotions and my being must adjust as I go. For "Free Jazz" everything is completely different. For me, "Free Jazz" is something radically different from the fairly melodic chaos of Mingus, a melodic composer always! "Free Jazz" lives in the realm of Cecil Taylor and the "Interstellar Space" of 1967 Coltrane, not the emmotional movements of a philosphical Coltrane or a gospel tinged Mingus. This is almost like... Read more |
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