Ornette Coleman, "Sound Grammar" (Sound Grammar)—The concept here isn't quite new: in the late sixties, Coleman had a quartet with two acoustic bassists.
The jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman, below, will release "Sound Grammar," his first new album in more than a decade, on Sept. 12 on his own label, also called Sound Grammar.
The Sound Grammar quartet features Tony Falanga on upright bass, Greg Cohen on acoustic bass and Coleman's son Denardo on drums.
Mr. Coleman largely stocked it with songs from his album "Sound Grammar," which won the Pulitzer Prize for music last year.
5. 'Sleep Talking' A lyrical, conversational alto-sax feature from Ornette's last album, the Grammy-nominated Sound Grammar, from 2006.
Sound Grammar was a live quartet set with two double bassists and Denardo Coleman on drums, recorded in Germany, and, in 2007 it won a Pulitzer prize.
Coleman experimented with free jazz's new improvisational direction, and won the Pulitzer prize for music in 2007 for album Sound Grammar.
He played acoustic bass and not, as we said, electric bass on Sound Grammar - Ornette Coleman's most recent live recording.
Most remarkably, he won the Pulitzer Prize for music, for his self-produced album "Sound Grammar," his first recording in a decade; it's the only time the award has ever been given for a commercial record.
His latest bit of terminology, Sound Grammar, builds on the Harmolodic theory that he introduced in the early 1970s; it is a holistic ideal of improvised group communication that is easier to recognize than define.
Put on Sound Grammar, last year's Pulitzer prize-winning live album, and you can hear New York in the dive-bombing bowed bass lines, the clattering drums and the dark blue bursts of his saxophone.
