Ornette Coleman Archive
“Believe me, I play music every day, but music cannot touch the things we’re saying to each other this very moment. I could play my heart out and have you crying—but it’ll never be as close to you and I as being human.” – Ornette Coleman
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Dates reflect the period remembered, not the date of the recording
Texas
Ornette: 1930 through the first half of his career (books)
Ornette: Ornette’s boyhood career (1944-1949)
Ornette in Armarillo (1949)
Insights gleaned from a 1993 interview by Michael J. Price
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Time in New Orleans (1949) (interview)
Ken McCarthy and Ornette talk about his pivotal time in New Orleans
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Ornette: Deep from the Heart of Texas
A conversation with Dave Oliphant
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Los Angeles
Don Cherry: Ornette – Los Angeles and early New York years (interview)
Joe Tynan: Ornette’s LA Years (1952 – 1959) (article)
Change of the Century
Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso (1965 and beyond) (interview)
Who’s Crazy? (1966) (film)
“The Adventure” – About Ornette’s early years (film)
Ornette at John Coltrane’s Funeral (July 21, 1967) (audio)
John McPhee: Coltrane and Ornette (1967) (interview)
Ornette with Ed Blackwell, Charlie Haden and David Izenson (c. 1968) (tape of rehearsal)
Ornette’s Artists House loft at 131 Prince Street (1968 to 1974) (article)
Artists House history: Emmanuel Ghent, Ornette and Electronics (1969) (article and music)
Albert Ayler on Ornette (1970) (interview)
Music speaks louder than words (November 5, 1971) (performance)
Ornette talks about “Skies of America” (April 18, 1972) (interview)
Prime Time
Charlee Ellerbe and Prime Time (1975-1987) (interview)
Ornette’s Big Score (1986)
Dave Bryant: Plaid vs Spaghetti (1983-2000) (interview)
Ken McCarthy: Bowery, Rivington, and Revival (1980) (interview)
Pat Metheny and Song X (1985-1986) (writing)
Shirley Clarke: “Ornette: Made in America” (1985) (film)
Ornette playing my violin (c. 1985)
Chris Walker and Prime Time (1986-1988) (interview)
Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Prime Time (1987) (videos)
Ornette Coleman: Introduction to Harmolodics (1995)
Prime Time – Interviews with Dave Bryant
Al MacDowell interview by Dave Bryant
Fred Williams interview by Dave Bryant
G. Calvin Weston interview by Dave Bryant
Gregg Bendian – I interview by Dave Bryant
Gregg Bendian – II interview by Dave Bryant
Jamaaladeen Tacuma interview by Dave Bryant
James Kamal Jones interview by Dave Bryant
James Blood Ulmer interview by Dave Bryant
Kenny Wessel interview by Dave Bryant
Matt Lavelle interview by Dave Bryant
Tony Falanga interview by Dave Bryant
21st Century
Silvie Jensen: Ornette in London (2001) (interview)
Ornette on music, sound and human beings (2007) (video)
Ornette All-Star Revue – Royal Festival Hall, London (2009)
Ornette and Sonny Rollins together (2010) (audio)
Memorial
Ornette Coleman Memorial Program (document)
June 27, 2015 – Riverside Church, New York City
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