Milestones Posted June 16, 2015 Report Posted June 16, 2015 As we all know, Ornette was one of the music's great compsoers. Here are my top 10 Ornette pieces: Lonely Woman Peace Ramblin' Blues Connotation Una Muy Bonita Mob Job Broken Shadows The Legend of Bebop Cross Breeding Happy House Quote
Cyril Posted June 16, 2015 Report Posted June 16, 2015 (edited) My top 10 Lonely Woman Tears Inside Peace Street Blues Beauty Is a Rare Thing The Legend of Bebop Congeniality Snowflakes and Sunshine Matador Once Only Edited June 16, 2015 by Cyril Quote
danasgoodstuff Posted June 16, 2015 Report Posted June 16, 2015 IMHO, not that I'm qualified but... I thin Lonely Woman and Ramblin' [auto-corrects to Rambling Gambling] are head and shoulders above the generally excellent level of ornette, as compositions, performances, whatever. Hard to pick after that. Quote
clifford_thornton Posted June 16, 2015 Report Posted June 16, 2015 yeah, at the end of the day I'm with you, probably. I like "Blues Connotation" a lot. And "First Take." Quote
xybert Posted June 16, 2015 Report Posted June 16, 2015 Pretty hard to pick ten favourites, but some favourites off the top of my head this morning: Chippie (Something Else!!!!) Free (Change of the Century) Faces and Places (At the Golden Circle Vol. 1) What Reason Could I Give (Science Fiction) Street Woman (Science Fiction) Law Years (Science Fiction) Police People (Song X - Twentieth Anniversary) 3 Wishes (Virgin Beauty) Quote
Rooster_Ties Posted June 16, 2015 Report Posted June 16, 2015 Gonna half to think about this, but no such list is complete without Law Years. Quote
Lazaro Vega Posted June 16, 2015 Report Posted June 16, 2015 Turnaround is a classic, too. Especially the way he plays it on Sound Grammar. Have any of you heard Don Cherry singing the head to "The Sphinx" on that Pharoah Sander's box from ESP Disk? He breaks down the composition's parts as he's scatting them. Quote
Steve Reynolds Posted June 16, 2015 Report Posted June 16, 2015 "Turnaround" and "When Will the Blues Leave" are two beauties Quote
clifford_thornton Posted June 17, 2015 Report Posted June 17, 2015 What Reason Could I Give (Science Fiction) Yes. And Neneh Cherry did a hell of a job covering it a few years ago. Quote
danasgoodstuff Posted June 17, 2015 Report Posted June 17, 2015 (edited) yeah, at the end of the day I'm with you, probably. I like "Blues Connotation" a lot. And "First Take." Yeah, First Take says about 90% of Free Jazz in half the time - I'd put that out on one side of an album and some of the as of then unissued things on the other instead of splitting Free Jazz in two. In Dana's Perfect Fantasy World.... Edited June 17, 2015 by danasgoodstuff Quote
clifford_thornton Posted June 17, 2015 Report Posted June 17, 2015 i.e., Twins. http://www.discogs.com/Ornette-Coleman-Twins/release/499260 Quote
Milestones Posted June 17, 2015 Author Report Posted June 17, 2015 I'll have to check out "First Take" again...it's been a long time. I'm not sure about killer compositions, but I really like the duet album with Charlie Haden: Soapsuds, Soapsuds. I had it on a cassette that went bad, but it can be heard in its entirety on YouTube. Quote
clifford_thornton Posted June 17, 2015 Report Posted June 17, 2015 Didn't realize the CD was so hard to come by - the LP is pretty easy to find, and excellent indeed. Quote
danasgoodstuff Posted June 17, 2015 Report Posted June 17, 2015 i.e., Twins. http://www.discogs.com/Ornette-Coleman-Twins/release/499260 Right, I'd have done that or something very much like it instead of Free Jazz - a whole album devoted to one tune smacks of hype and putting a faded out and back in break in it just stops the flow, IMHO. really 20-25 minutes should be enuff to get most anything said. On the other hand, People In Sorrow is a work of genius that totally justifies its length, just wish there was a proper CD version with no break in the middle. Quote
Joe Posted June 17, 2015 Report Posted June 17, 2015 A favorite not yet mentioned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd7Ij_kNAho Quote
Rooster_Ties Posted June 17, 2015 Report Posted June 17, 2015 Barely half-a-dozen that probably qualify as really true "Standards" (alas) -- and yet, I'm having trouble narrowing down a list to just 10 titles. Just skimming his discography (pulling out tunes based on name recognition alone), I'm easily up to over 20 titles that I remember as being really key (at least for me) -- and I know I'd have to go back and actually listen to most of them, to narrow the list. Plus I'm sure there are 2-3 more tunes that aren't the usual, that I can never remember the titles of -- which I always think are way underrated. Not that everything he did/wrote is up there, but there's a lot that is! Quote
xybert Posted June 17, 2015 Report Posted June 17, 2015 It's also amazing how much he wrote. Right from the get go, Something Else!!!!, album after album: "all compositions by Ornette Coleman." Quote
kh1958 Posted June 18, 2015 Report Posted June 18, 2015 Lonely Woman Sadness The Ark Ramblin' Blues Connotation The Mis-Used Blues Mothers of the Veil Focus on Sanity Tears Inside Times Square Quote
Gheorghe Posted June 18, 2015 Report Posted June 18, 2015 I just can´t rate them, I love them all. But I´d like to mention "Garden of Souls" which is really a pretty thing. "Love Call" is great On the album Ornette at 12 are beautiful things, the first tune , I think it´s titled "New York", there is also a version of that tune with string quartet "Prime Design/Time Design". And I shouldn´t forget "Good Old Days" from the "Empty Foxhole", because that was the first Ornette Coleman I heard when I was a kid...... Quote
soulpope Posted June 18, 2015 Report Posted June 18, 2015 Turnaround is a classic, too. Especially the way he plays it on Sound Grammar. Have any of you heard Don Cherry singing the head to "The Sphinx" on that Pharoah Sander's box from ESP Disk? He breaks down the composition's parts as he's scatting them. agreed .... Quote
soulpope Posted June 18, 2015 Report Posted June 18, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDCHd7ItGgI Charlie Haden/Hampton Hawes "Turnaround" Quote
king ubu Posted June 18, 2015 Report Posted June 18, 2015 Didn't realize the CD was so hard to come by - the LP is pretty easy to find, and excellent indeed. Not really, at least not over here, though I gather many hate this series: but then, anyone should have "Beauty Is a Rare Thing" anyway, as it does contain several tracks not available elsewhere (first released in the box) Quote
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