{"id":3228,"date":"2015-06-15T09:05:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T16:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=3228"},"modified":"2015-06-15T09:05:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T16:05:54","slug":"where-to-start-with-ornette-coleman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2015\/06\/where-to-start-with-ornette-coleman.html","title":{"rendered":"Where to Start with Ornette Coleman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;vGiRx28JEAJa3NJAi6uPVSLuqhSRvvpA&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>THE great Texas-born jazz musician, who died last week, worked in a number of genres &#8212; free jazz, symphonic music, funk &#8212; and it can be hard for newcomers to get a sense of him.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how I began <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2015\/06\/11\/remembering_ornette_coleman_what_you_need_to_know_about_the_late_jazz_visionary\/\" target=\"_blank\">my Salon piece<\/a> on Coleman:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Miles Davis said he must be \u201call screwed up inside\u201d to play that way he did. Max Roach punched him in the mouth after he saw him play. But Ornette Coleman, who died today off cardiac arrest at 85, lived longer than almost any jazz great, he made important and challenging music for decades.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ShapeOfJazzToCome.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3229\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ShapeOfJazzToCome.jpg\" alt=\"ShapeOfJazzToCome\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ShapeOfJazzToCome.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ShapeOfJazzToCome-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ShapeOfJazzToCome-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ShapeOfJazzToCome-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>How to get into Coleman\u2019s music, which drove so many people crazy, influenced musicians in jazz, funk and dance music, and became known even among admirers (a group that included not just fellow jazzheads, but Jackson Pollock and James Baldwin) for being difficult and driven by an arcane theory?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>RIP to a great, at times frustrating, always challenging artist.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;vGiRx28JEAJa3NJAi6uPVSLuqhSRvvpA&#8221;] THE great Texas-born jazz musician, who died last week, worked in a number of genres &#8212; free jazz, symphonic music, funk &#8212; and it can be hard for newcomers to get a sense of him. Here&#8217;s how I began my Salon piece on Coleman: Miles Davis said he must be \u201call screwed up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[145,163,69,42,169,58],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-50s","7":"category-60s","8":"category-70s","9":"category-jazz","10":"category-miles-davis","11":"category-music","12":"entry","13":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3230,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions\/3230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}