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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 Featuring previously unpublished photographs of Coleman and his contemporaries, this book tells the compelling story of one of America's most adventurous musicians and the sound of a changing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 aptly outlines the aesthetic dilemma, when 'jazz had become aware of itself and its strengths' and Coleman 'found this self-consciousness restrictive and contrary to the purpose of deeper exploration.' She writes with demystifying clarity about the manifestations of compassion and rigor behind Coleman's search for 'unison' and the musical system he called 'harmolodics' ..."
"Golia writes scenically about Coleman's birthplace, Fort Worth, Texas ..."
"But that comes with the territory."
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