Ornette Coleman - Dancing In Your Head (live)

The Ornette Coleman PrimeTime Band Is:
Ornette Coleman - Alto Sax, Violin, & Trumpet
Burn Nix - Guitar
Charles Ellerbee - Guitar
Larry McRae - Bass
Albert McDowell - Bass
Denardo Coleman - Drums
Kamal Sabir - Drums

[@roaryratcoon]

I realize Ornette's music is not for everyone, but I personally think nearly every piece he has played is brilliant beyond belief. Ornette was one of the first musicians that realized music doesn't have to be based on chord changes or set structures with simple AABA forms, allowing a whole new avenue into improvisation. Some say it's a cacophony of endless noise...I say it's a true improvisers wet dream.

[@parallelworldsguy]

The dissonance and chaos is balanced by the clear, sweet expression of melody. The rhythm pulse holds everything together. Modern classical "serial" music has nothing like this--it is almost unlistenable, while the richness and depth of Ornette's music can be appreciated with just a little effort.. As Ornette says in his album "Sound Grammar", he is seeking universal structures of sound, both of words and music. He is an intellectual and poet. Awesome!

[@ARUD08]

Check out his actual symphony, 'Skies of America.' Will knock you away.

[@ejb7969]

On its original recording this piece is called "Theme From a Symphony". The ALBUM is called "Dancing in Your Head". I was working at a record store when this first came in. It blew me away.

[@BlackWarriorLures]

That's correct.

[@Roelandvinken]

Gotta love Ornette Those Japanese fella's realy understand good music when they hear it. Went to Tokio last month, i can't believe how many REAL music lovers i ran in to there,,, its insane

[@tencooktcats]

Those who don' t understand what Coleman,Taylor,Ra,etc.are all about will find plenty of accessible music on Seseme Street.

[@mattvj5]

gotta love a cat that can solo on 3 instruments..he never had any formal trumpet trainging either!!

[@dpoland]

This is my "break out" track.....I am not human when I listen to this anymore....there is nothing I can't do when I hear this...over and over....year after year.....when Zen comes into an artist....then instrument......this is what it sounds like......good god thank you Ornette!

[@MichaelMcGiffin]

I completely agree. I haven't heard much of Ornette Coleman's music, but after watching this I think it's time I started listening to more free jazz.

[@user-ep5md5sb7f]

I miss you Ornette.

[@magbakk]

Ornette is incredible! He could play exactly like Parker if he wanted to! A true musician!!!

[@louisef.9137]

It would have been euphoric to have been at this concert... The musicians are all so fucking great! Ornette never disappoints.

[@marcellomentasimonsennico5670]

there has always been debate on the quality of Ornette's Trumpet and Violin. He used these instruments mostly for sounds and textures, and not for real musical creation. But WHAT A SAXOPHONIST HE REALLY WAS!!!

[@shapecatfilms7592]

I agree. I think the violin and trumpet experiments were (in theory) better suited to the studio where a bit more control and post-production could be applied to them. But on stage what you see is what you get and you can see the his limitations on those instruments a lot more.

[@EVOWORLD13]

Ornette Coleman also influenced me greatly. He used to play a white plastic alto sax made in England. I took my son to one of his live concerts in LA. He had two drummers with full kits, it was an unbelievable performance!

[@sontredis2579]

I think I’m a musical genius listening to this

[@Matapuces]

Coleman is Art!

[@julianmitchell3035]

I can appreciate this more than his previous songs because his violin and trumpet playing are much more refined.

[@jlevinson6]

I played with Albert when he was in his late teens and he was one of the greatest young talents I've ever seen. Why didn't he make it huge? He played the bass like George Benson and wrote great tunes. He had Roy Benton (Brook's son) in the band playing guitar. We played at Count Basie's house. Was amazing.

[@murattaner7384]

on day in 1986, ı heard him play incredible Charlie Parker alone in his room for 45 minutes. All incredible Bird with not a single note of himself, I waited outside of his door until he finished and he opened the door and asked why ı didn't come in? ı said ı couldn't interrupted that and asked him why he doesn't do that in front of audiences to stop all these arguments about him to which he calmly replied ' Murat, that's not my job. R.İ.P.

[@wids]

Thanks for sharing this. RIP

[@PepperWilliams_songcovers]

His trumpet playing is my favorite. The melody is played all through the song (bass, guitar, drums sax, violin, drums etc.,) One needs to listen to this piece a few times before dismissing it. Free jazz is not ENTIRELY free. There definitely is structure in this piece. Bravo Ornette!!!!!!!!

[@BongoFury33]

Far out! Beautiful violin work! Long Live Ornette!

[@williamallison5222]

I can’t believe he had this all Memorized

[@mebbio]

Not so easy to speak about this kind of music. "I've listened to him all kinds of ways. I listened to him high, and I listened to him cold sober. I even played with him. I think he's jiving, baby" (comment by Roy Eldridge on Ornette Coleman). If one loves Ornette Coleman, that's perfect. If one finds Ornette Coleman dull, that's equally perfect. I belong to the second kind of people.

[@jazzdawg54]

not enough of Ornette out here... keep it coming... he is a national treasure!

[@jazzmunky]

Jeez! The power of that sound - with his throat puffed out!!!

[@iammosi]

very cool...ornette at his best..... what he does is not only difficult but inspiring.... sounds that smash and crash into each other, motion and rhythm.....sweet!!!

[@RogerMFox-vw5cm]

...Ornette Lives...4~Ever...

[@kingkoeller]

Free Jazz Har-mo-lodic based improvisation from the master and his disciples. This is recorded live in Tokyo, Japan from Live Under the Sky '86. Ornette's use of Chromatic passing tones on the Alto, Violin and Trumpet are without equal. He is the true innovator of Free Jazz. Fantastic!

[@tayloreh]

wow hes really giving everything... its both inspiring and baffling from the outside when someone's that far into what they're doing. Though to him its surely not baffling at all.

[@marcuswatt9727]

I just saw Denardo and Charles Ellerbee and others play this today in Philadelphia. Exceptional. Thanks to Jamaaladeen.

[@noa3556]

Uncle Ornette, you have a place in my heart

[@tooshikii]

Ohhhhhh I’ve been looking for this video for long time. I saw it when I was on sick leave from high school and took some medication which had a weird effects on me and even though I knew this song before I had never hit me properly but at the time the song hits me naturally coming through me as if water. Thanks for the great upload !!

[@Kolef88]

I listened to Ornette once before in 1977 and just checked out this vid and quite frankly I don't mind waiting another 35 years to listen again.

[@tommyfinke]

I really enjoy this with a cup of tea.

[@Fakery]

Me too

[@fabianohpereira]

The name of this tune is Theme From a Symphony and it appears on Dancing in Your Head album. Maybe that explains this name here.

[@jasondotson]

Highly evolved sets of EARS love this!!! The album of the same name is probably my favorite Ornette album, over "shapes of things to come", "live at the full circle", "free jazz", " science fiction", "twins", etc. I had the good fortune of seeing Ornette live at the Chicago Jazz fest a few years back, and he was still on, although he didn't do any material as ground-breaking as this. I used to throw stuff like this on when I had guests over and I wanted them to leave!!!!

[@bwebster6234]

I used to do something similar for my neighbours that played loud pop/rock music until 6,30 in the morning,, I would finish off my sleepless night and direct my speakers in their direction and give them a couple of hours of Mr. Coleman

[@juliolazzagonzalez]

9/3/1930 nace el saxofonista, trompetista y violinista Ornette Coleman considerado el padre del free jazz. Un auténtico genio musical innovador, creador de la libre improvisación sin ataduras melódicas ni armónicas.

[@linuxlife]

mm. i get you. i used to be like that. consider it this way. one of the greatest facets of jazz is its ability to communicate and convey a wide variety of emotions and feelings. this is the ultimate expression of movement and action. life is rarely limited to pretty solos within certain chord progressions. furthermore, free jazz is about breaking boundaries. it opens up the mind and spirit.

[@SrBuenito]

increible, realmente queda danzando en tu cabeza

[@milton112]

very cutting edge and bouncy. find myself returning to this video again and again. thanks for posting it.

[@JazzmanJibilla]

Wow..it sounds so different this many years on, I guess we have just about caught up with Ornette.

[@diegomuscleargentina]

we love you Ornette in Buenos Aires! I hope you enjoy your stay here! You are wonderful!

[@garygomesvedicastrology]

Well it sounds good to me and to lots of oher folks. The first time I heard Ornette was live at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1971 (the last time the original festival was run in Newport) Several of my friends were with me and we all felt the same way, without having heard him before.. We ALL loved it. Don't assume people are "mindless sycophants" when they like what you don't. Don't insult me. It is uncalled for. Go listen to something else if you don't like this. This borders on rudeness.

[@erasedcitizen77]

this sounds like what I imagine an incredibly bad acid trip must be like. and yet strangely i find myself listening to it fairly often.

[@jazzmunky]

That's not say I don't like and respect what OC does... Man I love it - the guy was a pioneer in free jazz. He broke ground in jazz. It's a great aesthetic and led to a varied field In this case the melody is facetious but I like it! OC's music is often full of love and acceptance, and there's a beauty in it. He should appeal to the all-embracing Wordsworth in some of us who get uptight about music.

[@microdot4747]

interesting reading all these comments by people who listen then have to say how they don't appreciate free jazz. I don't want to know why you don't like free jazz... I love this music and Ornette for 40 years now. We all have our personal esthetic. I see the discipline and the systematic ordering of "chaos" that is our consciousness as the fascinating method of this music. You have to listen, you have to do some work, but the rewards are well worth it.

[@JacobWellman]

i've listened to this maybe 50 times....and im just now starting to understand it

[@charlesbarry6730]

This is free jazz . Caused a lot of controversy initially. Free jazz never gained a large audience. It was a musician's music. It was not appreciated by all musicians.Although Miles Davis never endorsed free jazz ,has music at staged of his career contained some free jazz elements.

[@zachjohnson637]

Dark Magus is pretty much free-jazz. But you can hear Miles incorporating a free-er sound with the beginnings of his Second Quintet.

[@agusspp6551]

There's not such thing as "musician's music". Dont' be a jazzsnob.

[@yufunk]

Ornette Coleman Supreme commander of the sonic galaxy on eARTH. You cant possibly F*** with this !

[@jlhyz2]

Most free jazz i'm not crazy about, but i think this is very cool. If you like this check out Offramp by Pat Metheny.

[@glaxl]

The master!!!!

[@vihtorik]

Ornette also is greatest violin player i have ever seen

[@chas5131]

Coleman transcends the others. See "The Devil's Horn" He was once playing near a room filled with great and prominent jazz musicians. He played Bird so well the others ran out to see whether Bird had come back to life.

[@priscilladavanzo]

beautiful!!

[@morriganravenchild6613]

What a genius!

[@SMay-rg5vh]

Genius, genius, genius.

[@antoniogurruchaga7982]

FREE JAZZ FACE 4:52

[@agusspp6551]

Terumasa Hino?

[@jonsegerros]

lul that face basically sums up my reaction to this performance

[@MichaelJSpraggon]

I would say that creating consistent atonality like this is easier than people think as there are lots more options than the alternative (tonal music). All you need to do is avoid consistent tonality. Think of it as travelling cross country, avoiding the 'narrow roads' of tonality. You can even cross the roads briefly as long as you don't start to follow them.

[@therealwaltewhite]

I can't believe nobody clapped after his violin solo !

[@egyptianminor]

BZ/anticholinergic/Ditran Free Jazz. This is sooo dissonant, it's aural delirium.I respect OC as an innovator - his record s like 'Tomorrow Is The Question' have some great melodies/themes, and his 'FreeJazz' record has this concept - a double quartet line up, playing independently, yet listening to one another, coherently. This is too chaotic for me - perhaps 'cause of the sheer volume of so many electric instruments? I might dig it, were it shorter, or if I were hipper/smarter, but I ain't...

[@wahzooo]

the violin playing is really cool

[@Jorvaskrr]

Man,Ornette puffs his neck just like Dizzy puffs his cheeks.

[@mgonzalez9935]

true haha

[@mcLynguist]

Now thats SomE Dope as JaZZzZz MusiC

[@kzamfeth]

Grazie per l'arte immensa..

[@pjustusxi]

He plays a super thick reed and blows LOTS of air. Someone once said they tried to play his sax and couldn't get a sound out of it.

[@Sars78]

He is a genius

[@davepaulsanders]

this is actually called "Theme From a Symphony" from the album Dancing in Your Head.

[@theones]

ignorant fools. this man is one of the most important in jazz. time to mature, these are the sounds of true freedom and expression.

[@CubsFanJohn]

LOL at the guy at 1:44

[@user-tw5kc1pq1b]

CubsFanJohn he is so good

[@SimonBelowpiano]

4:53 :D

[@pfflam]

I think it has incredible structure-the stuff yo are describing means there are many types of structure to this kind of music, among them rhythm and harmony, but it has other kinds of models it can operate with. I think there are a lot of very studied and constructed layers working in this kind of music - some of them seem like a mess, but even those play roles in other sonic relationships. Besides, it grooves; if you let your body twitch along you find a definite groove, lots of them in fact.

[@timphelanart]

The best!

[@NPjazzsaxmusic]

Ornette has written literally hundreds of compositions. he also studied violin and trumpet for three years before using them live full time, just because he doesn't play them conventionally doesn't mean he doesn't know or understand the instruments. oh, and P.S. ornette has never had a lot of good representaiotn from critics, like many great altrernative artists. It's your opinion whether you thinks its bullshit or not, but please try and get the facts right when you write a public comment.

[@ronnieanand]

Coolest head. Wow, a dance tune.

[@manuelergcruz]

7:52 -"..the living legend, Mr. ORNETTE COLEMAN!!"

[@emilygclarinet]

This is catchy.

[@fifasbassrules2413]

DAMN

[@Fatpack1234]

So würde es sich auf der Frankfurter Musikmesse auch anhören wenn alle Instrumente in einem Raum aufgestellt werden^^

[@garygomesvedicastrology]

I really get tired of folks assuming this music takes no effort. I have played planned and prepared pieces and believe me, playing in different keys is MUCH tougher. I wish folks would really consider this.

[@williamchiew318]

@0:30...Wow! Very open! That's a great skill.

[@mlitrus]

man i listened to lonely woman in class today and i was sort of weirded out. then my professor had all of us play in a free sort of style, and i think i understood it a lot better. it is a very cathartic experience to play in this style, but it is still a bit chaotic for me to listen to

[@gnoseseauton]

Great Ornette

[@pearljam1984]

i would imagine this a song that is very difficult to play live.

[@fredhelmecke6073]

Unreal...

[@jaydeejazzone]

Yep!, and a child sipping Remy for the first time wont be saying "yummy" either. This one is for the thinkers, for the mature audience only, an aquired taste that comes from a serious appreciation of the craft. Ask yourself , "are you daring enough to go out on stage before thousands and even attempt to perform this type of art form?" I think not!

[@UniversityOfMunich]

For free jazz this is pretty damn catchy.

[@timmidyett6753]

Genius

[@vitorfilipe21]

That neck everytime he inhales. Jesus!

[@febbra2]

avant-garde!!!

[@drwinkle101]

I love when he gets going on violin. No humour, all po faced avant garde rawk.

[@EbolaSandwich]

RIP

[@odarrien]

Free Jazz can be considered an acquired taste. It really ought not to be dismissed so easily. While it seems like an endless confusion of noise, it does take a good musical sense to also have all these different things happening in the music and clashing. If one listens it with more of an open mind and get inside the music, it may grow on you. As I said, its an acquired taste. I'm not a fan of free jazz though.... I didn't know that Ornette played trumpet too!

[@warhols25]

Stupendous ! and I don't generally listen to jazz...

[@HeathWatts]

Have you been asleep for 50 years? Not all people who play the sax want to play choruses of Satin Doll for a living. Disclaimer: I love Ellington, but his music is his. If we all play standards and other people's solos over and over, how do we differ from classical or pop musicians?

[@martinoblues]

🥰

[@FrankSpada]

Like to fly with a magic carpet, people! Thanks LightningTrident.

[@MustangCoupe1951]

Have you ever lived in a major city anywhere on this planet? Have you been in the streets during rush hour? And perhaps it helps to have a clue what it sounds like inside the head of a schizophrenic. Ornette Coleman played the music he heard in his head, and it was dissonance. Free jazz is not pastoral, and Ornette is not all that different from Eric Dolphy and hardbop. This is some cool shit. Can I listen to it all day? No.

[@HeathWatts]

I understood, I didn't agree with you because I like Ornette's music and he was a direct outgrowth of bebop.

[@Tripmeister_Eder]

das mit der geige is geil

[@TobyJamesJoy]

pretty sure that's david liebe-hart on guitar. brilliant violin, outer space.

[@Midnighht]

freedom jazz king M!

[@Jellysauce]

It would have been so great to be there