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Jun 20, 2024 · Ornette Coleman’s influence as composer (including his mysterious system of ‘harmolodics‘) and as soloist, innovator, and bandleader, cannot be exaggerated. His long life (1930 -2015) and sporadic reinventions ensure that choosing a mere ten albums is a difficult task, but here are some landmarks along the way, featuring a ...
Jul 1, 2024 · One can see why Golia’s translations of certain musical ideas, such as Harmolodics, will be helpful to readers: “the harmony melody and movement (the rhythmic aspects) of a composition are assigned equal value as the basis for improvisation.”
Jun 29, 2024 · Toronto alternative jazz fusion group Lavender Town hits the Garrison for the very first time! Supporting sets from Detroit legends Harmolodics and Toronto's Moodset, this night will feature everything from Nintendo covers to modern jazz originals, 4-on-th... Read more
Jun 27, 2024 · The principle of human equality quickly emerges as a central tenet of Coleman's life and music. Harmolodics is best understood when viewed in its essential form, both as a theory of improvisation and as an artistic expression of racial and human equality.
Jul 1, 2024 · That's the key to really hearing Ornette--it's all in the melodies. He played music that left set chord changes behind, improvising harmony in real time, opening the way for the free jazz innovators of the next few decades. He calls his system of approaching music harmolodics, a compound of harmony, motion, and melody.
Jun 13, 2024 · Although partially inspired by the Parker revolution, Coleman’s music also harkened back in its linear fragmentation, wailing blues sonorities, and unconventional intonation to a much older, primitive, folklike blues and work song tradition, incidentally more or less cleansed of jazz’s earlier European borrowings.
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