{"id":3990,"date":"2014-06-11T14:33:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T14:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.artinfo.com\/blunotes\/?p=3990"},"modified":"2014-06-11T14:33:27","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T14:33:27","slug":"a-sons-tribute-to-the-father-of-many-things-celebrating-ornette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/2014\/06\/11\/a-sons-tribute-to-the-father-of-many-things-celebrating-ornette\/","title":{"rendered":"A Son\u2019s Tribute to the Father of Many Things: Celebrating Ornette"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ornette and Denardo Coleman, in 1969\/ photo courtesy of the artist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The musicians who\u2019ll gather Thursday evening (June 12) at the bandshell in Brooklyn\u2019s Prospect Park for \u201cCelebrate Ornette<\/a>: The Music Of Ornette Coleman\u201d <\/strong>come from all over music\u2019s landscape.<\/p>\n

Such range is fitting, as is the concert’s site. Coleman is most clearly identified as an iconic jazz master and a founding father of free jazz (a term that, despite its muddied meaning today, signified something as the title of Coleman\u2019s 1961 LP). Yet as an alto saxophonist (as well as on trumpet and violin), and as a bandleader and composer, it\u2019s fair to say that Coleman, now 84, is father to the ideas that drive and distinguish the best modern jazz (maybe even what makes it \u2018modern\u2019), and the most innovative music across a range of other styles. His music befits the rolling hills and trees of Prospect Park: It, too, is an engineered environment brilliant enough to celebrate what is natural and organic.<\/p>\n

Ornette Coleman is also father to Denardo Coleman<\/strong>, a drummer who first played on one of his father\u2019s recordings at age 10. Now 58, Denardo still generates from his trap set the firm but subtle pulses that define his father\u2019s rhythmic sensibility; he’ll do so at the helm of a quintet that will serve as Thursday\u2019s house band.
\nDenardo also projects both the air of compassion and dismissal of convention that are bedrock attitudes of his father\u2019s work. Those two qualities more than any stylistic sense form the logical thread through the list of musicians on this program, presented jointly by Celebrate Brooklyn<\/a> <\/strong>and the Blue Note Jazz Festival<\/a>: Henry Threadgill, James Blood Ulmer, Laurie Anderson, Patti Smith, Ravi Coltrane, <\/strong>Bill Laswell, Bruce Hornsby, Flea, David Murray, Geri Allen, \u00a0Bachir Attar and The Master Musicians of Jajouka <\/strong>and Thurston Moore, <\/strong>among others (perhaps including Ornette).
\nAs a critic and journalist, I\u2019ve written about Ornette Coleman\u2019s music and interviewed him many times through the years. (Here<\/a>\u2019s one Wall Street Journal piece from a decade ago.)\u00a0As a father, I\u2019ve been able to share Ornette\u2019s music with my boy, Sam. As a human being, I just like to live in the world this music calls up whenever I can: This concert promises to be a communion, onstage and off, of folks who feel the same way.
\n7 p.m., Prospect Park Bandshell, Prospect Park West and Ninth Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn, 718-683-5600, bricartsmedia.org.
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The musicians who\u2019ll gather Thursday evening (June 12) at the bandshell in Brooklyn\u2019s Prospect Park for \u201cCelebrate Ornette: The Music Of Ornette Coleman\u201d come from all over music\u2019s landscape. Such range is fitting, as is the concert’s site. Coleman is most clearly identified as an iconic jazz master and a founding father of free jazz … <\/p>\n

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