Ornette Coleman – review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonOrnette Coleman's visits to these shores have always been remarkable events, featuring collaborations with bagpipers, rappers, opera singers, orchestras and – at 2009's Meltdown festival – Patti Smith, Flea and the Roots.By these adventurous standards, this climax to the London jazz festival was a fairly spartan affair, with Coleman backed only by his son Denardo on drums and two bass players, Tony Falanga (playing frenetic walking bass lines on the double bass) an...

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