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Part 3 of this 4 Part Series presents the music of Ornette Coleman in a variety of configurations featuring among others – Jackie McLean, Dewey Redman, Denardo Coleman, Asha Puthli, Bobby Bradford, Charlie Haden, Prime Time, James Blood Ulmer, Pat Metheny, Jerry Garcia, Joachim Kuhn…

Ornette & Dewey

Jazz is one of the few subjects
he never explains to other people. He’s perfectly willing to hold forth on the subject of European classical music from the Baroque to Post-Modern serialism or disco or funk or raga or reggae. But jazz is like a secret drug to him. It alone has the power to alter his brain waves and neurotransmitters such that he feels autonomous, immunized against the contamination of his body, which otherwise is nearly impossible to make go away.
Lost Memory of Skin – Russell Banks

Poster: Ornette Coleman and his Prime Time Band at The Cactus, Toronto, February 21, 1982
Ornette Coleman & Dewey Redman:
Town Tavern, Toronto, December 7, 1970
Poster & Images by William E. Smith

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