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Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure
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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 Featuring previously unpublished photographs of Coleman and his contemporaries, this book tells the compelling story of one of America's most adventurous musicians and the sound of a changing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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"Golia serves her subject fittingly by taking a nontraditional approach, applying the concept of territory to Coleman's time on earth ..."
"her book opens ears yet further to the transformative power of Coleman's music."
"Describing the way Ornette Coleman's music sounds is a challenge, and Golia rounds up some delightful attempts by music critics past."
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