Ornette Coleman Sextet - Free Jazz (1of 3)

1978 Germany. Ornette Coleman - sax, violin; Ben Nix - guitar; James Blood Ulmer - guitar; Fred Williams - bass; Shannon Jackson - drums; Denardo Coleman - drums

[@Momma1241]

The Rite of Spring's first notes are all over this, I loveit

[@guydechalus4561]

I didn’t grow up listening to “jazz.” My son studying drum set now. He got me exploring all these various tributaries… I like the term ‘Jazz’ less and less. This music is just wild. It rocks!!!

[@Whataboutwhatthen]

This reminds me of life, confusing on the surface but infinitely beautiful when you delve into it.

[@kneelbeforezodslave]

free jazz rules. I use to blast this stuff at work on the graveyard shift. kept everyone from falling asleep!

[@vinestip]

I have a bad fear of turbulence on flights. Strangely, blasting the more frenetic numbers on "Song X" distracts me from the weather.

[@rrm1903]

Pretty sure the nightmares of those days is still keeping them awake 😂

[@skater10333]

hahahahaha...man, sometimes i do the same and they start to look at me with a bad expression hahahahaha

[@joeblow593]

This stuff is really cool at 4:00 in the morning, when you really must stay awake!

[@adelcc1470]

wagwan

[@anthonyfischer2408]

I have such a difficult time explaining to people why I love this. The best I can come up with is that music like this validates how I feel at the moment I am listening to it. I feel like I have "explained" myself after hearing this.

[@absslsrvnt]

This is the song "Sleepwalking," which uses the Lithuanian folk song tune that Stravinsky used at the beginning of the Rite of Spring.

[@cameronscottcairney8852]

Holy shit

[@RobertWernersbach]

People should know his brilliance

[@growskull]

thought they sounded similar

[@Christopher.TheGrasshopper]

Many People dont understand that this is about energy, is always in expansion, it can go to any direction, imprevisible, too many posibilites Just like the expansion of the mind, the expansion of the universe... You Just have to let the energy flow, you have to concentrate on every detail and every perspective... Sorry for my bad English

[@DE-GEN-ART]

thats why normmies hate this shit, its the farthest thing from musical.some people cant bop to just energy

[@TheIceIvy]

This is really really weird for me from the first minute I listened to this but I kind of get it. It's not something I'd listen to but I appreciate it.

[@GrabreckA]

I was told by someone a while ago to look up free jazz. Never herd it before but I like how the it all falls together and then separates and than falls together again... It sounds well... jazzy!

[@frankalfar]

The strange connection of Rite of Spring and Jazz, amazing!!!!!

[@postatility9703]

It is certainly music. It speaks to, and feeds, the soul. It confuses for a moment, then amuses, then leads the way to ....... wherever it -and you- agree upon. This is real music. This is real adventure.

[@ManielDemFef]

Coleman is so amazing. Whatever he does, you can still hear the blues tradition within his playing. Also the whole Harmolodic Concept I find a very original and fresh approach to improvisation. One of the greatest Jazzmusician of all times!

[@doggins]

I wonder if this is what the crowd came to see, or if they had a different view on jazz before they witnessed this.

[@DevotedNormanist]

Appreciating a cacophony like this reminds me of a good people watching session. Everybody's life is playing a different tune and we can sit and hear them all and forget ourselves or simply home in on one at a time. There is beauty in everything.

[@sea4our]

this is absolutely beautiful.

[@FredWilliamsBassist]

That is James blood Ulmer on guitar & my self on bass Fred Williams...See more KZbin fred williams at Fred Williams Bassist

[@KelvinLee1990]

Amazing work!!!

[@j1w170]

Thank You Mr. Williams

[@Ignoranteprogresivo]

¡GRACIAS, DE VERDAD! POR COMPARTIR ESTE MATERIAL.

[@Improring]

Thanks Ornette for all the great music and spirit!

[@PantsAreGoodForYou]

REST IN PEACE. Legend.

[@rhayader18]

This is beyond what's beyond of pain and hate and whatever. Pure pure pure JOY

[@a3081952]

Absolutely riveting music and so well crafted. For all with ears that can atune this is a masterpiece. I can enjoy opera, pop, jazz and free jazz in equal measure. This is music of real merit for all to be inspired by; as great as Bach or Coltrane or Hendrix - just different.

[@yato6772]

well I believe Coltrane also delved into free form jazz

[@tcaw8813]

Why do so many listeners of this type of music like to signal that a kind of openness of taste can't we just enjoy stuff without this bullshit signalling. It does more harm than good to the music

[@AbrahamOfWorms]

@@tcaw8813 I remember when I was like this…but I was like 17-20. Seems like a lot of old heads never grew out of it.

[@flyindonkeyodoom]

Is he quoting the bassoon beginning to "The Rite of Spring" ? Sounds like it.

[@harriettubmanmusic6961]

There’s about 12 notes used in Western music...

[@espressivsymbols3220]

As a bassoon player who was switched from sax (and is now back on sax cuz I couldn't afford a bassoon, tragic); it's definitely quoting it in a different key.

[@athanassioszotos1713]

yes he does,and it came to me as a revelation last week,although i listen to this piece every week,since i present it to my kids at school.

[@SadChimchar]

Yes definitely

[@ideasfaltan]

Thx for sharing this magic music= Free Jazz :)

[@mcbroseph69]

excellent. very exciting to listen to!

[@kevinhowat6808]

Yes, an homage to another music revolutionary who inspired fights in mid-performance.

[@adelcc1470]

i think you mean a homage not an homage, grammar rules

[@JusticeRobinettMusic]

@@adelcc1470 no he meant homage

[@SetuwoKecik]

​@@adelcc1470 *a omage Learn better english inbred

[@DrMarkAlburger]

Yup! That's Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring at the beginning -- the opening bassoon solo (Do-Ti-Do-Ti-Sol-Mi-Ti-La) -- in elaborated call-and-response! Nice!

[@gregorylightcatcher1058]

Yes. I hear it!

[@loboahriman7680]

Can't get enough of this shit.

[@Joshualbm]

So amazing and compelling fresh and mysterious.

[@shivabala9]

Beautiful !!! I love how Ornette weaves the blues into all of his improvisations.........

[@Tholgrimar]

brings tears to my eyes

[@rdrgplnz]

Fast n Bulbous

[@tussk.]

thats right, the mascara snake

[@littlebones18]

tight also

[@collinbeal]

Bulbous also tapered

[@TW1V]

"Got me?"

[@Zeal808]

Nice! Haha

[@Dazzer1234567]

To quote Richard Feynman: "if you think you enjoy free jazz, you don't enjoy free jazz"

[@CompuKonstantin]

When the band teacher is gone:

[@earthchild100]

incredible

[@FranciscoPereira-px6mu]

Awesome!

[@nukes27]

The band in heaven just got a little better.

[@communty]

David Newcomb even *significantly* better

[@laniiloo3127]

It is very calming

[@Mikabii]

i discovered free jazz, thats pretty sweet! :D

[@elliegarcia3785]

Anyone else hear Rite of Spring?

[@arynowyrth9581]

Jay Garcia Yes, instantly!

[@VR-dq3ew]

+Jay Garcia I knew something sounded familiar!

[@elahem6940]

+Jay Garcia It's Sleep Talking off of "Of Human Feelings" but yeah, the melody is pretty much a Rite of Spring quote

[@UruPereira-lh5wo]

65/5000 of course, to quote excerpts, phrases, rhythmic fragments in improvisation.

[@markuselipka]

yes. right. i thought exactly the same.

[@zxscd]

I'm already aquiring taste of freeform jazz

[@jmet678]

this funky as hell

[@5hineepropertyofleetaemin]

I really enjoy this.

[@ravioli2382]

フリーとかどうとか、そういったことよりも、私はオーネットのアルトの音色に惹かれます。

[@cmhavner]

2:20 The guitarist plays Korn - Falling Away From Me

[@todessehnsucht]

BRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH

[@fangettes]

that melody is from Rite of Spring

[@AlanKroeger]

This was probably recorded before Korn musicians were born or real close to that time

[@ricardorodriguez6456]

Korn sucks dude but is funny

[@dethronedb]

I do not mean to advocate experimenting with drugs - in fact, I'm more inclined to say that you probably shouldn't. But I will say that Ornette Coleman's music made much more sense to me - and gave me a lot more enjoyment - when I heard it on LSD, and that enjoyment has stayed with me ever since. In other words, this music is different enough that you really have to be able to come to it with fresh ears and an open mind to appreciate it. Maybe I could have gotten to that point without the aid of the psychedelic substance, but the LSD certainly made it a lot easier.

[@OTRTrader]

I'm seeing the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra this month in New York, celebrating Ornette Coleman, so I'm here for some studying.

[@tonysantori8109]

James Blood Ulmer and the great Ronald Shannon Jackson in the same band! Wow! RIP RSJ.

[@psicologiajoseh]

This is funny, I'd be laughing my ass off if I were there.

[@punkrocker1974]

GREAT MUSIC !!!

[@adelcc1470]

agree to disagree

[@AndrewBeveridge461]

This is so good. Deep dive youtube gold.

[@glaxl]

The weirdest thing about those negative comments is that people have so much excess time on their hands that they can spend time listening and writing about something they can't stand. It's actually amazing. I wonder, although I seriously doubt it, if there are jazz guys that go to pop music posts and spend this kind of time complaining about some shitty music they shouldn't have wasted their time with in the first place. For those who actually care about what led them here, this is historical and important because it was the springboard for Shannon Jackson and Blood Ulmer and Bern Nix to take us into new territory that saved us from what fusion jazz was deteriorating into.

[@RossAlbutt]

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[@glaxl]

Ross Albutt This was directed at all the negative comments to this and the other parts.

[@FlorencioCruz]

agree with you 100%

[@RossAlbutt]

Deep shit man!

[@airplaneoverhead]

Maybe they are like me and are trying to come to the other side. I personally don't like free jazz but I am trying to see if I can finally find some tunes that change my mind on the subject. Some of us actually want to try and give this style a chance.

[@frother]

woww my soul was taken away in the first 15 seconds

[@XxXxXJonathanXxXxX]

I think ornette said that you don't get enjoyment out of arguing what music is or defining it but by listening to it. So listen, If you like it good, if not go find something you enjoy and listen to that' don't waste a second writing a comment here.

[@ThePunkjaz]

Thats James Blood Ulmer on guitar on Ornettes right. Bern Nix on his left The instruments are perfectly in tune. Ornettes music does not use traditional chord changes, all the instruments play separate lines that are related by harmony, not melody. It can sound out of tune to the uninitiated. Thanks so much. This is the first footage of this early incarnation of Prime Time I've ever seen

[@bananajones9052]

ウルマーファンとしては、オーネットと一緒にやってる動画，はじめて見た！すごい。

[@kqpm392]

nice!!!

[@DrRicharddym]

Sounds like the jungle.. You can pan and focus on different parts that are all playing at once. I was going to say think of what Jackson Pollock is to the whole field of painting..that's what free jazz is to music. Not sure how far that analogy goes and stays truthful but.. I heard a musician say she liked playing fretless instruments because you had to 'find' the right tone/note within a composition and a fretted instrument didn't allow that continuous adjustment by ear. I mean that's quite interesting to me and makes sense. I think the really congested busy nature of this piece would put most people off listening further than a couple minutes..

[@hgerrard]

DrRicharddym It may sound like the jungle to you, and you do make some good points but "free jazz" is like a fine wine whose taste has to acquired. There is structure and format here. It's just not for everyone.

[@funkman0811]

yeah acquire taste for the insane and deaf lol

[@dimmwitness]

good stuff.

[@Encypruon]

I'm actually using this as my ringtone for some years now.

[@adelcc1470]

sure

[@SetuwoKecik]

​@@adelcc1470 sUrE 🤡

[@billmarvel9677]

Requires listening, and listening with fresh ears. You can't sail into this stuff listening with the old ears.

[@rjvernesto.]

Ornette Coleman is the man.

[@FredWilliamsBassist]

It is James Blood Ulmer on guitar, and Fred Williams on Bass

[@charlesbarry6730]

An innovative giant . Criticised initially. Later gained some acceptance. His music is really blues based.

[@MusicMatic707]

I was just thinking the same thing!!!

[@rainbowloomoverflow5106]

Rest in Peace!!

[@Wonko19]

This is not bad by any stretch of the word. In fact, it's quite good. I do not understand why I was told this was terrible. I like it.

[@RossAlbutt]

Swingin'! :-)

[@MrRawdoc]

I used to play stuff like this for my kids before they went to bed....they developed odd attitudes but society nixed that through various interventions...what a world...they won't let you make your kids into freaks...I have my values too, and they're as good as anyone else's...

[@adelcc1470]

very nois g

[@theslimemolds5099]

AWESOME. All our video's are free jazz or improvisational punk rock

[@javierenriquenunezandrade7523]

Ornette is like Marcel Duchamp , Kandinsky , Sun Ra, Miles they had a very personal spatiall and expansive , concept to express his ideas

[@ramkumarr1725]

Superb. Free. Float away. 💕Red Pill. Matrix Crew. Trinity and Neo.

[@hanskovisser2549]

i see ornette, i hear igor!! wauw.

[@simibuflu]

RIP Ornette... X

[@MrMuzicMan]

Dude this definitely is jazz and actually pretty important he disposed of chord changes and time signatures all together and created a new type of collective improvisation based on the melody of the tune. They let the music take them where they felt it should go.

[@JS-jr2ux]

rite of spring kewl

[@RogueRotting360]

@Seb8367 Yes. It sounds like a play on the bassoon solo from A Kiss of the Earth - the first movement of The Rite.

[@grosstheman]

Freestyle Jazz- Nice!

[@thebeatcreeper]

yeah reminds me of the melodic motif at the start of rite of spring..

[@MIDIPipe]

¡¡¡Stravinsky!!! Nice touch!

[@lincolnperuzzi3694]

Genius

[@bogosisekhukhuni3350]

insanity

[@QUEfrang]

why is it nostalgic

[@redrobinand3]

Am I right to assume that most of "free jazz" is just an expression of feeling through an instrument and since feelings don't always have structure,hence the really loose sound of free jazz?

[@bandicoot5412]

The great innovator

[@PabloDegregori]

Rip genius

[@NoName-tq7qc]

I really want that Ornette sound on my alto. It's a keen crying sound, it's amazing. Does Ornette Coleman play this tune in any album?

[@elahem6940]

+No Name They're playing "Sleep Talking" from the album "Of Human Feelings"

[@jordankinsey4245]

In Val Wilmer's book 'as serious as your life' that he plays on a plastic sax as he found that metal ones contain the sound too much. This is probably a large aspect of his sound

[@emilianoturazzi]

@@jordankinsey4245 he played that plastic alto only from late 50s to early 60s - his first albums were recorded with that instrument. in 1962 he retired for a while and when he came back to play in 1965 he had a metal saxophone - a selmer mark VI descending to low A (a very rare instrument) - ever since 1965 he never played a plastic alto. He switched for a while to another model (the one he's useing here: a Selmer mark VII ) then went back to the descending one. If you carefully look here he plays a metal saxophone. The saxophone is the less important part in the chain of makeing a tone quality: first one is the man/women, then the combo mouthpiece/reed, then the saxophone itself

[@williamgregory1848]

I don’t know how to describe Ornette Coleman’s playing. It’s organized disorganization. It’s like he’s playing the wrong notes correctly. It gets to you emotionally.

[@emilianoturazzi]

Mingus...

[@jamesmoore4172]

Back In The Day, As A Young Musician I Had A Hard Time Trying To Understand The concept and the arrangements of the note patterns He created. I Still Have Problems.

[@alanasda7705]

All my life, I studied music theory, read all the books, attended all the lectures. Then I listened to Ornette Coleman one time and I realized everything I was taught in music school was a lie.

[@hanumanpan]

@onlyjoetee -In the 60's in London, when the beatles were becoming big, Paul Mcartney was famously checking out all kinds of Avant garde stuff-Stockhausen, and Albert Ayler are both mentioned-Albert Ayler is another free jazz exponent who came after Ornette. Lou Reed/Bowie/Tom Waits have also name checked Ornette. Ornette also started off playing in blues bands in the 50's

[@petezilla]

@vk342 the opening bit IS the opening of "the Rite.." wee!

[@crownpropeller]

@Seb8367 Yep, it is!

[@louisgreenstein6886]

The "I Could Do That" school of populist criticism goes way back. It's what the small minded say about new art. It's what dopey people said about impressionism, rock and roll, and jazz - art they don't understand. Instead of saying "I don't understand it" and following up with a bit of inquisitiveness, they say "that's just noise" or "that's out of tune" or "I could do that." But they don't. They don't do it. They don't make art. They just consume.

[@markuselipka]

100% d`accord!

[@spensert4933]

I could have written that comment but not Ornette music!

[@theslimemolds5099]

Amen so true. All we play is free jazz & improvisational punk rock mostly with sax or bass flavored in. Evolution is never understood by the rocks

[@sakalak]

Also - they actually can’t do this.

[@davidreynolds3709]

Truth

[@jlhyz2]

@CliftonMcCallMusic Ornette coleman was doing this before that album. He had an album called Free jazz in 1960. Miles probably got it from him.

[@bobjazz11]

@ReminiscenceHr Well said!

[@elynnzhao7422]

bruh moment

[@Transformersdotcom]

Ikr. :)

[@barrygilbert]

By the way, its Bern Nix, not Ben Nix. Thanks for uploading this!

[@helloiamfelix]

Korn - Falling Away from Me, anyone?

[@bobjazz11]

@ArtD42 Amen Bob

[@ghillielover]

@Falliahd no prob. the more i listen to it the more it makes sense