Ornett Coleman dies, a central figure in jazz history – People’s Daily Online

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UPDATED: 12/06/2015 – 10:13

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Manhattan, 12/06/2015 (The People’s Daily Online) – This Thursday, at age 85, the most intellectual and free jazz musicians died in Manhattan because of a cardiac arrest, the family to New York Times reported. “I think the sound has a more democratic relationship that information, because there is no need for alphabet to understand music,” he said in 1997 in a conversation with the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, whom he invited one of his concerts.

Coleman, born on March 9, 1930 in Fort Worth, Texas (USA), was the father of so-called “free jazz” free from the chains of the standards and the laws of harmony. Pushed it a unique and unrepeatable improvisation, his tremendously conscientious. “Improvisation is more free, because everyone experiences it in their own way. Do not call it composing, I call grammar sound, “he said in an interview and Sound Grammar was the title of the album, in 2007, he led the Pulitzer Prize as well as his record label.

Dismantling of the rules of jazz came to be, however, a classic in itself, and today the major cultural institutions mourned his loss. “We mourn the death of jazz legend Ornette Coleman, who blessed our stage with numerous performances throughout the years,” also he expressed about the author of “The Shape of Jazz to Come” the Lincoln Center, the premier arts complex New York and home to the largest jazz festival in the city. “Thanks for all the music, Ornette, you were truly ‘something else!’” They said from the jazz label Blue Note, who had him under contract, playing with the title of their debut album Something Else !!!! . From the Recording Academy which awards the Grammy award he received so honorable in 2007, noted “his determination to break barriers that led to jazz to new heights.”

His last performance was in June 2014 in a tribute concert at the Prospect Park in New York, organized by his only son, Denardo, also a musician and who joined in his quartet in 2004, although he was seen in public on February 22 of this year at a tribute dinner Yoko Ono.

Unlike Parker, let the excess to their flashy costumes of satin, while living a life devoted to music and thought life. A prolific life until his last album, “New Vocabulary” which was published in 2014 without permission. Admired the “bebop” Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, but he needed more flexibility. “Music is not a style, it’s an idea,” he claimed. And those ideas fit ontology and metaphysics.

With covers with paintings by Jackson Pollock, with writers like Thomas Pynchon taking as a basis for characters in his novels (specifically, the McClintic Spehere of V) or David Cronenberg fichándolo to work on the soundtrack of his film The Naked Lunch, Coleman ended up being accepted by the intellectual upper class.

He also participated in popular shows such as Saturday Night Live, but over time, in the twenty-first century would say, with cantankerous tone, that “jazz is not music for everyone.” The universal reaction of desolation that his loss has left, however, contradicts this statement.