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Update (2014)
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Tokyo Jazz Joints: http://tokyojazzjoints.com
Tokyo Jazz Directory by Mr. OK Jazz: http://tokyojazzsite.com
Philip Arneill/Photography: http://philiparneill.com
Team Love Raven-House Gallery: http://www.tl-rh.com/current-exhibit-2/
(Call gallery for specific summer hours)
UK Jazz Dance aka Bebop Dancing
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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
American Musicians II: Seventy-One Portraits in Jazz By Whitney Balliett
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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.
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“As he introduced Silvie to the audience, Ornette stated that ‘Music is a system of belief that everyone has automatically.’ “
Opera singer Silvie Jensen recalls her experience of performing with Ornette at the The Barbican, London. March 23, 2001 and the events leading up to it.
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This article entitled “Ornette Coleman: The First Beginning” originally appeared in Downbeat Magazine on July 21, 1960.
It’s a document of the lonely struggle Ornette endured to find colleagues and commercial support for his music during his years in LA. It recounts the details of who helped him and how his first record “Something Else!” came into being.
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Sonny Rollins
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