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Author:
Maria Golia
Publisher:
Reaktion Books
Date:
May 1, 2020
Lauded by some, maligned by many, Ornette Coleman forged a breakaway musical art known as "free jazz." Featuring previously unpublished photographs of Coleman and his contemporaries, this book tells the story of one of America's most adventurous musicians from his upbringing in segregated Fort Worth, Texas, to his artist emergence in New York's 1960s counterculture.
What The Reviewers Say
Golia serves her subject fittingly by taking a nontraditional approach, applying the concept of territory to Coleman’s time on earth.
Ms. 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.
