We found our way back to you through many winding paths. We found our way to you through noise, through twisted clanging electric cacophony, because that was what had become of our music, the music given to us, late in your century. Not all of us. Some of us found our way to you through our fathers' music, this was not my way, but it is a way some took, and this kind of handing down through the years, tradition, isn’t this the ideal way… Or we found you through those you sang with, sang out among, who pointed toward you and we followed the pointing finger. Or those who had encountered you along their own paths, you were singing in their periphery, and you somehow announced yourself, clarion call, a bird in the forest, and they felt compelled to announce you to the world, so that the world might also radiate in your light and sound, in your presence. But way after way, path alongside path, we found our way back to you. Because one th
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Ornette Coleman
June 12, 2015
We funnen our way back to you through many winding paths. We found our way to you through noise, through twisted klingande electric cacophony, because that was what had become of our music, the music given to us, late in your century. Not all of us. Some of us funnen our way to you through our fathers' music, this was not my way, but it fryst vatten a way some took, and this kind of handing down through the years, tradition, isn’t this the ideal way… Or we funnen you through those you sang with, sang out among, who pointed toward you and we followed the pointing finger. Or those who had encountered you along their own paths, you were singing in their periphery, and you somehow announced yourself, clarion call, a bird in the forest, and they felt compelled to announce you to the world, so that the world might also radiate in your light and sound, in your presence. But way after way, path alongside path, we found our way back to you. Because one thing art can accompl
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Ornette Coleman
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Fittingly unconventional . . . Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure is an atlas in prose, a guide to the territories of varied sorts – social, racial, aesthetic, economic and even geographic – that Coleman came out of, traveled through, lived near, occupied, left behind or transformed . . . Golia covers a lot of territory in tight, direct language that illuminates Ornette Coleman’s life and work . . . Most impressively, perhaps, she devotes a sizable section to Coleman’s cryptic and elliptical philosophy of music, which he called Harmolodics, without straining to defend it with academic triple-talk or dismissing it.
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David Hajdu, New York Times Book Review
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One of the finest books on the power of place and influence in a musician's life.
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Andrew Male, Mojo
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Maria Golia eloquently describes the Ornette phenomenon in a book laden with musical and social insights.
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Chris Searle, The Morning Star