The Nightside: Ornette’s Prime Time Savings Time: 95th Birthday Parting

Ornette Coleman’s Question

Imagine if entire realities could burst into being,

fully formed like perfect rows of grain—the same

way an artist’s sweat dissolves into air, is subsumed

by clouds that grow pregnant and explode: this torrent

of water soaking the soil; a ceaseless, restorative cycle.

By Ornette Coleman

The Shape of Jazz to Come

New language music of the next future

Scoffed at, ridiculed, feared and hated

Canary in a Diamond Mine

Plastic saxophones flying over the Skies of America

Zig zag from the underground

Free Jazz Freedom unleashed

Art of the Improvisors

Song X tone dialect

Sound Grammer, music is a verb

Harmelodic against the Empire

By Andy O’

Words and music by Ornette Coleman and his apostles on The Nightside.

Ornette's birthday is on March 9, and it is daylight savings time, so that we will go there.

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