Ornette Coleman

The shape of jazz to come

by Piotr Michalowski

posted 3/1/2004

The curse and blessing of the artistic life is that one must always move on, never remaining in a comfortable place. You might never know that, though, from listening to the glossy world of commercial jazz, which is filled with retro singers, tributes, ghost bands, and the funerary rituals of repertory orchestras and PBS documentaries. Fortunately, Ornette

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