Jamaaladeen Tacuma/Ornette Coleman: For the Love of Ornette – review

(Jazzwerkstatt)Despite the 80-year-old Ornette Coleman's advice to the other players here ("Fellers, can you hear me? Forget the note and get to the idea"), much of this sprawling but unique session is more conventionally song-based than the great saxophonist's harmolodic breakthroughs of five decades ago. Initiated by bass guitarist and 1970s Coleman protege Jamaaladeen Tacuma, it brings together a remarkable bespoke band including British tenor saxist Tony Kofi, Carla Bley's versatile Austria...

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