Today is Ornette Coleman's 82nd birthday.
Ornette has one of the most exciting, consistently challenging and listenable discographies on the planet. His Atlantic recordings are essential listening for anyone interested in post-bop music. They have been collected into a 6-cd set and titled "Beauty Is A Rare Thing".
This record dates from 1985, and is one of the lesser-known Prime Time albums.
It is a very densely populated live performance, inaugurating the Caravan Of Dreams performance /recording/meeting space in Ornette's home town of Fort Worth,Texas.
*part of "Compute" can be seen in "Ornette:Made In America", a film by Shirley Clarke.
Ornette And Prime Time-Opening The Caravan Of Dreams
Side One:
a1-To Know What To Know
a2-Harmolodic Bebop
a3-Sex Spy
Side Two:
b1-City Living
b2-See-Thru
b3-Compute
Ornette Coleman-Alto Saxophone, Violin & Trumpet (track b3)
Bern Nix-Guitar
Charles Ellerbee-Guitar
Jamaaladeen Tacuma-Bass
Albert MacDowell-Bass
Denardo Coleman-Drums
Sabir Kamal-Drums
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Thanks very much for sharing this.
ReplyDeleteYou can never have too much Ornette, is my thought, so thanks for this (which I haven't heard in years).
ReplyDeleteThanks So Much For This Ornette's Prime Time Slice Of Wax. Never Heard It Before But I'm Ejoying Right Now!!!
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ReplyDeleteOMG thanks so much for this. I've been on the hunt for this for years. This ear of Ornette is so underrated - Hopefully someday the masses will come around to realized the "harmolodic" music of Ornette Coleman and his contemporaries is just valid as his free jazz contributions.
ReplyDeletePS Nice work at Closet of Curiosities. Check me out over at The Changing Same http://thechanging-same.blogspot.com/
We have similar tastes ;)
Thanks again