Ornette Coleman

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Mar 09, 1930 (95 years old)
Death date
Jun 11, 2015

Ornette Coleman

Known For

Looking for Ornette
1h 1m
Movie 2018

Looking for Ornette

"Jacques Goldstein goes on a quest for a spectre, a spectre that haunts Jazz. Who was Ornette Coleman, the saxophonist and composer ' If his seminal body of work is now - rightfully so - fully recognized, the man remained deliberately mysterious and enigmatic. The director visits and interviews musicians who owe him a lot. A portrait of Ornette takes shape as these sketches gradually unfold."

Ornette Coleman
0h 28m
Movie 2018

Ornette Coleman

"Saxophonist, artist and Whitehot Magazine publisher Noah Becker visited music legend Ornette Coleman at his music studio in New York City. The following film is the result of that interaction."

Charles Lloyd - Arrows Into Infinity
1h 53m
Movie 2014

Charles Lloyd - Arrows Into Infinity

A journey in sound through the unusual life and career of jazz legend Charles Lloyd. Lloyd's own voice, and those who worked with him over the last five decades help us discover and better understand this enigmatic man and his spiritual pursuit through music.

Sonny Rollins: Beyond the Notes
1h 18m
Movie 2012

Sonny Rollins: Beyond the Notes

Sonny Rollins: Beyond the Notes uses his 80th birthday concert to look into the man and his music.

365 Day Project
16h 39m
Movie 2007

365 Day Project

This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large public (the artist's friends, as well as unknowns) were invited to view a diary of short films of various lengths (from one to twenty minutes) on the Internet. A movie was posted each day, adding to the previously posted pieces, resulting altogether in nearly thirty-eight hours of moving images.

An Introduction to Harmolodics
0h 11m
Movie 1995

An Introduction to Harmolodics

Ornette Coleman is always asked, “what is Harmolodics?” Harmolodics is the term he coined to describe his music and his philosophy of life. He decided to do a short film about Harmolodics. A few artists were in enlisted, including Lou Reed, Thurston Moore, Yoko Ono and dancer Wunmi Olaiya. The film only went out to journalists as part of the Tone Dialing press kit. It was released publicly in honor of the occasion of Ornette’s 90th birthday March 9, 2020.

Ornette Coleman and Prime Time & Pat Metheny: Live in Montreal
Movie 1988

Ornette Coleman and Prime Time & Pat Metheny: Live in Montreal

Biography

Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s.

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