Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure

By Maria Golia

Book Overview

Ornette Coleman's career encompassed the glory years of jazz and the American avant-garde. Born in segregated Fort Worth, Texas during the Great Depression, the African-American composer and musician was zeitgeist incarnate. Steeped in the Texas blues tradition, he and jazz grew up together, as the brassy blare of big band swing gave way to bebop--a faster music for a faster, postwar world. At the luminous dawn of the Space Age and New York's 1960s counterculture, Coleman gave voice to the moment. Lauded by some, maligned by many, he forged a breakaway art sometimes called "the new thing" or "free jazz." Featuring previously unpublished photographs of Coleman and his contemporaries, this book tells the compelling story of one of America's most adventurous musicians and the sound of a changing world.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789142237
• ISBN13: 9781789142235
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.7" x 8.6"