Don Cherry: Ornette in Los Angeles and early New York years (1950s and 1960s)

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Ben Sidran interviews Don Cherry for NPR in 1983 and 1985

Cherry’s reminiscences of the early years in Los Angeles and New York including his memories of Ed Blackwell, Scott LaFaro, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, the Master of Musicians of Jajouka and others.

Includes many musical selections and Cherry’s explanation/demonstration of Ornette’s harmolodics.

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Charlee Ellerbe and Prime Time (1975-1989)

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Interview

Charlee Ellerbe recounts his early music training in his home town of Philadelphia, how he became a member of Prime Time and the experience of working with Ornette.

Charlee began working with Ornette and Prime Time in 1975.

Left to right – Charlee Ellerbe, Ornette Coleman, Bern Nix

Contact info for Charlee: ellerbeat AT gmail DOT com

Video courtesy of Jazz Bridge, a nonprofit that aids Philadelphia professional jazz and blues musicians in crisis.

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Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Prime Time

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Update (2014)

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Ornette: 1930 through the first half of his career

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Ornette Coleman with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell

Two extended pieces on Ornette’s life starting from his birth in Fort Worth, Texas through the 1960s and 1970s, roughly the first half of his career.

You can read these works here:

Four Lives in the Bebop Business
By A.B. Spellman

Link:

American Musicians II: Seventy-One Portraits in Jazz By Whitney Balliett

Link:

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Shirley Clarke: “Ornette: Made in America” (1985)

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Starting in the 1960s, filmmaker Shirley Clarke began a film about the life and art of Ornette Coleman. After a hiatus, the project was resumed in the 1980s, updated and released theatrically in 1985.

The trailer

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Silvie Jensen: Ornette in London (2001) (interview)

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