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ISBN-10: 1789145600
ISBN-13: 9781789145601
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Publish Date: 06/07/2022
Dimensions: 8.40" L, 5.30" W, 1.10" H

Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure

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Overview

With striking photographs and personal insight, a compelling biography of the great American saxophonist and free jazz innovator Ornette Coleman.

Ornette Coleman’s career encompassed the glory years of jazz and the American avant-garde. Born in segregated Fort Worth, Texas, during the Great Depression, the African-American composer and musician was zeitgeist incarnate. Steeped in the Texas blues tradition, he and jazz grew up together, as the brassy blare of big band swing gave way to bebop–a faster music for a faster, postwar world. At the luminous dawn of the Space Age and New York’s 1960s counterculture, Coleman gave voice to the moment. Lauded by some, maligned by many, he forged a breakaway art sometimes called “the new thing” or “free jazz.” Featuring previously unpublished photographs of Coleman and his contemporaries, this book tells the compelling story of one of America’s most adventurous musicians and the sound of a changing world.

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"Fittingly unconventional. . . . Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure is an atlas in prose, a guide to the territories of varied sorts–social, racial, aesthetic, economic, and even geographic–that Coleman came out of, traveled through, lived near, occupied, left behind, or transformed. . . . Golia covers a lot of territory in tight, direct language that illuminates Ornette Coleman's life and work. . . . Most impressively, perhaps, she devotes a sizable section to Coleman's cryptic and elliptical philosophy of music, which he called Harmolodics, without straining to defend it with academic triple-talk or dismissing it."–David Hajdu "New York Times Book Review"
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Details

ISBN-10: 1789145600
ISBN-13: 9781789145601
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Publish Date: 06/07/2022
Dimensions: 8.40" L, 5.30" W, 1.10" H
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