Heard Sun Ra's group In 70's in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The tunes on his albums turn like pages as each tune is audio story to be listened to chronologically. Maybe just my take. I know his version of "On the Sunny side of the Street" is very uplifting and his long time alto sax player Marshall Allen is still playing, being close to 100 years old.

For some reason Ornette's music was the first jazz I really got into. As with all art and music it's all a matter of individual taste. Some people love the songs of Cliff Richard but it's not for me! Thanks for your channel which I find interesting and entertaining. Keep up the good work.

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Why when people actually do understand jazz critique the smooth, jazz genre why do they call it hate they’re just being honest, there’s no substance no technicality and they’re trying to fit into a format!

I believe he started out as a classical flutist, and could have had a successful career there but for racial prejudice. Straight music’s loss was jazz’s gain. A real virtuoso and truly original voice.

It’s simply smooth jazz.

THE ALBUM WITH BUDYY EMMONS is excellent, duets, SCRAPPLE IN THE APPLE, other birdisms. On Flying Fish, 80 or so. Got it.

"Space is the place" - Sun Ra 🛸

Good stuff. The Sun Ra House (as shown in the video) is in Philly's Germantown, not the east village of that other town up north.

I used to work with John Sinclair's daughter. She knew Sun Ra throughout her younger years and told me, "Everything that you have ever heard about that man is true. Everything."

“does 1+1=8?” 🤔

Very funny when (usually white men) talk about great Black geniuses and focus on their drug abuse, relationship problems, etc, etc. However they never talk about the disgusting racist, exploitative environment that contributed to such things! Great Black artists like Lee Morgan lives would have been much different, had they not been denied opportunities because of the colour of their skin!

It must have been thirty years ago I took a date to the movies to see Sun Ra's "Space Is the Place". A feature length film. HIlarious and goofy simultaneously. Aside from the music itself, humor is a strong element in Sun's ouevre.

…he sounded and played better with age…come fair weather 🌹🐝🌈

It's hard to explain - I don't think Sun Ra comes off on record. Live, you get it. I saw him a few times in Atlanta, and it was electrifying,.........

.....Sun Ra was a musical genius........Trane was chasing Sunny

this is the stuff that everybody tells you, lol.

bet he had autism

Superb! Now, I´m looking forward to a Pharoah Sanders video in the future, because it´d fit perfectly.

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Space is the place FOREVER 🛸

Sun Ra was a below average jazz musician who created a dumb identity to bamboozle people into buying his albums.

Cool. Thanks for sharing

Chet saved many lives as he was losing his own. He is the equivalent of a Jazz Saint

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Seriously embarassing to realize that so many people who think they know Jazz music cannot appreciate Ornette Coleman sixty years after he first broke through. Gotta take those earplugs out of your soul and learn the real meaning of the word "listen." Of course, this takes humility, which is pretty fucking rare out there.

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Couldn't he be both a chalatain AND a visionary?

I don' hear his innovative ,more open, language in the actual jazz scene. What he was doing was trying, with his melodic constant serach,a way out to the clche of the be-bop idiom.

Well , i respect but dont gravitate to his music . European classical music already covevered a tonality and free time , from Varecse to John Cage , but the jazz players put it through the blues

Ornette Coleman is the Schoenberg of Jazz. Both created a bizarre, boring and unbearable musical conceptions.

If Ornette didn't exist it would be necessary to invent him.

All Prophets get ridiculed at first in the countries or home towns but get appreciated by few somewhere else, they come back one day and all of a sudden everyone worship him, actually wanting to be him or her! One elder in South Africa, a retired Jazz musician, bassist/guitarist introduced me to the music of Ornette Coleman and I loved it because it was all different from what I had about jazz before. I said this man is a Genius!!!

He held back in the drum battle with Gene Krupa. But does louder and faster mean better? I like finesse drumming

Thanks Danny for sharing this, Erroll is one of the greatest pianist who ever lived and his playing makes people happy.

But he was also, from the beginning, hailed by many leading musicians as a genius. So - just decide for yourself- do you like him or not ?

'' One must be brain dead to call him a fraud '' Orion

please do Albert Ayler!

Interesting channel ……subbed

Thank you ❤

There's an amazing Lee Morgan documentary called "I Called Him Morgan" that goes in depth on his life and music

I gave his music an honest listen in 1970, when I was first exploring jazz. After all these years I still don't buy it. As I don't buy most of the avant guard of the time. Just because you're doing something new, that doesn't mean you're doing something with lasting value. Any scientist will tell you - most experiments are failures.

Hey man if Coleman didn’t start it you know somebody else would start it. Cecil Taylor was already on that really really out shit

The most passionate of all trumpet players to ever grace our planet .He was my first great inspiration on the trumpet , he's buried outside of Philadelphia, in a humble grave and doesn't even have a headstone . Someday God willing I'll construct a statue for him there .Gone but not forgotten. His music will influence trumpet players for generations to come .

He definitely OFFENDED SENSIBILITIES. Saw him on SNL, introduced by UNCLE MILTIE, of all ppl. To tell the truth, l liked the 'Skies of America' and 'Science Fiction'.

Ok… Ornette was indeed a visionary. An often unlistenable visionary, just as even Coltrane’s incessant blowing was both visionary and sometimes unlistenable. Ultimately, it’s all about what turns you on. When I was a teen I was listening to Ornette Coleman. Nowadays I’m more likely to dig on Dexter Gordon.

The only concert I have ever walked out on. I just couldn’t take any more. I really didn’t get it.

Ornette was definitely a visionary. Genius.

The early opposition to Coleman showed how parochial many of the critics were: it was as if the concept of an avant-garde was quite unknown to them. The support of John Lewis was crucial, as he and the Modern Jazz Quartet were very popular with a middle-brow audience, and the MJQ recording of "Lonely Woman" helped enormously - it was my introduction to Coleman, whose music I loved from the start. I don't think that Coleman regarded himself as an innovator - just as someone who had his own style and was determined to see where it took him. At the Five Spot, his group played opposite a more conventional band, the Art Farmer/Gigi Gryce quintet. Aware that many in the audience were there to listen only to him, Coleman addressed them with praise for the Farmer group, and encouraged them to listen to both groups with equal attention and respect. I believe that he was rather embarrassed by the titles given to his LPs, as he didn't see himself as a deliberate innovator.

Ornette Coleman the pride of Fort Worth, TX