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10 months ago@thejazzlibrary Collective celebrates the birthday of the great Ornette Coleman! The Big Note section features the animated illustration by artist/ musician @maximiliano_lopez_barrios and Ornette's words from an interview by Quincy Troupe in 1981. Ornette Coleman was simultaneously one of the most beloved and polarizing figures in jazz history. Though now celebrated as a fearless innovator and a genius, he was initially regarded by peers and critics as rebellious, disruptive, and even a fraud. His instantly recognizable, keening, blues-drenched tone always sought to reflect the depth of human emotion and its utterance. Coleman's compositions from "Lonely Woman" to "Snowflakes and Sunshine" freed jazz from chord changes, fixed rhythms, and conventional harmony. The possibilities he opened up for improvised music in the late fifties and early sixties, when he scrapped the conventions of Western harmony and pitch for a conception that was both a leap into the future and a recovery of the blues past, show no signs of being exhausted, and the implications of his more recent work, involving symphonic composition, free-funk, and the "harmolodic" system, are now being worked on by a new generation of musicians, many of whom are alumni of his bands. "What I would hope for is that some kind of healing medicine would be incorporated in these sounds, coming from these ancient instruments. I would like to try and bring about some kind of medical sounds that could actually cure depression, cure whatever it could. I think that some certain people outside of doctors do this now, already, but it's done in such a camouflaged way, you know?" [Continued in the comments] 🎷 Join the @jazzphotoarchives Collective! 🔗 Support the collective through the store. (Click on the link) #ornettecolemam #doncherry #jazz #music #jazzmusic #saxplayer #illustrator #onthisday #vinyl #hardbop #jazzhistory #bebop #saxophone #jazzvintage #jazz #art #freejazz #vinylcollection @flea333 #jazzphotoarchives @atlanticrecords #illustratorsoninstagram #animation

8 months agoThe Jazz Photo Archives Collective & Library celebrates the amazing & beautiful Kamasi Washington's new album: Fearless Movement! "Fearless Movement is a vibration of growth and discovery that I pray can help us let go of our fears in order to move towards the place that we know we should be. A place were we can truly love and care for each other unconditionally. So we ALL can dance, sing and play with hearts full, in this gift of life." -Kamasi Washington Congratulations to all involved in creating this masterpiece of music. Featuring: Kamasi Washington, André 3000, Thundercat, George Clinton, Terrace Martin, D Smoke, Allakoi Peete, Cameron Graves, Dontae Winslow, Kahlil Cummings,Ronald Bruner Jr., Ryan Porter, Tony Austin, Brandon Coleman, Patrice Quinn, Miles Mosley, Woody Aplanalp, Banchamlak Abegase, Carlos Niño, Henok Elias, Robert Miller, Rickey Washington, Joel Whitley, Mono/Poly, Dwight Trible, Ben Williams. The Big Note section today features the animated illustrations by artist/ musician @maximiliano_lopez_barrios accompanied by the last album track: Kamasi's outstanding solo in Prologue (Tango Apasionado), by the Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla. 🎷 Join the @jazzphotoarchives & @thejazzlibrary Collective! #kamasiwashington #fearlessmovement #vinylrelease #jazz #music #jazzmusic #saxplayer #illustrator #onthisday #vinyl #hardbop #jazzhistory #bebop #saxophone #jazzvintage #jazz #art #freejazz #vinylcollection #jazzphotoarchives @jazzcorner_ @intljazzday #illustratorsoninstagram #animation @kamasiwashington @flea333