标题: 奥尼特-科尔曼 爵士乐演奏家和作曲家 [打印本页] 作者: shiyi18 时间: 2022-2-28 21:59 标题: 奥尼特-科尔曼 爵士乐演奏家和作曲家 Ornette Coleman
Jazz Performer and Composer | Class of 1994
Title
Jazz Performer and Composer
Location
New York, New York
Age
64 at time of award
Deceased
June 10, 2015
Area of Focus
Music Performance and Composition
Published July 1, 1994
ABOUT ORNETTE'S WORK
Ornette Coleman is a musician and a composer long recognized as an influential figure in the history of jazz.
His innovative harmolodic theory of music abandons Western conventions of harmony and rhythm, and offers musicians an expanded tonal language with which to compose and improvise. Coleman’s occasional use of the non-tempered scale, his abandonment of chord changes and the conventions of the 32-bar AABA song form, and improvisational interplay between musicians are characteristic features of his approach. His album entitled Free Jazz (1960) gave a name to this new music style.
In addition to being featured on many jazz compilations, his albums include Who’s Crazy (1966), Science Fiction (1971), In All Languages (1987), and Tone Dialing (1995). Coleman has written several modernist concert pieces, notably the orchestral Skies of America (1972), and movie soundtracks including Naked Lunch (1992). He is the subject of a film, Ornette: Made in America (1984), compiled from early career footage.
BIOGRAPHY
Coleman is a self-taught composer, and a performer on alto and tenor saxophone, trumpet, and violin. He attended the Lenox School of Jazz in Massachusetts in 1959. In the 1970s he studied and recorded with the Master Musicians of Jajouka in Morocco, anticipating by a decade the worldwide interest in African music.