Ornette Coleman 'Sound Grammar'

[paul secor]

I love Sound Grammar.

It's kinda funny that one criticism levied against it is that it sounds "just like an Ornette record."

We're living in a time when chameleons are honored more than individualists.

[AndrewHill]

Spun it again today.

[Bright Moments]

Spun it again today.

Me too! what a great disc!

[colinmce]

Just realized I never got around to owning this after having listened to a library copy some years back. Just remedied that and am looking forward to hearing it again.

[danasgoodstuff]

I heard Ornette with a three (!) bass variant of this band, and loved it, anyone else hear that?

[nail75]

I am still grinning from ear to fucking ear when I think that I was at that show.

Me and a friend sat next to an middle-aged couple who had no idea who Ornette Coleman was. They probably heard that he was a legendary musician, but not more. They mostly went to see musicals and stuff. I thought: "Uh, oh, you are in for a surprise." They stayed pretty long but not until the end.

I heard Ornette with a three (!) bass variant of this band, and loved it, anyone else hear that?

I am not sure, but several years later, Ornette was here again with a band that was much closer to "fusion" than to the music on Sound Grammar. I do not remember three basses, but I remember thinking that this apparently was Coleman in jazz-rock mode.