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Key Information
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| Artist: |
Ornette Coleman |
| Record Label: |
Sony |
| Contributing Artist: |
London Symphony Orchestra |
| Genre: |
Jazz Instrument |
| Subgenre: |
Alto Sax |
| Release Date: |
August 05, 2002 |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. Skies of America
2. Native Americans
3. Good Life
4. Birthdays and Funerals
5. Dreams
6. Sounds of Sculpture
7. Holiday For Heroes
8. All of My Life
9. Dancers
10. Soul Within Woman
11. Artists in America
12. New Anthem
13. Place in Space
14. Foreigner in a Freeland
15. Silver Screen
16. Poetry
17. Men Who Live in the White House
18. Love Life
19. Military
20. Jam Session
21. Sunday in America |
| More Information |
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Personnel: Ornette Coleman (alto saxophone); David Measham (conductor); London Symphony Orchestra. Producer: Paul Meyers. Reissue producer: Michael Cuscuna. Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, England from April 17-20, 1972. Originally released on Columbia (31562). Includes liner notes by John Litweiler and Ornette Coleman. Digitally remastered by Mark Wilder. This is a Super Audio CD playable only on Super Audio CD players. Ornette Coleman began composing for classical ensembles in the early 1960's; in 1972 his symphonic composition SKIES OF AMERICA was recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra. The piece is hauntingly melodious, scored for massed strings playing in high registers and ominous, rumbling percussion. On four tracks, Coleman's mercurial blues-rich alto soars over the orchestra. There are some similarities to the symphonic works of Samuel Barber, Aaron Copeland, Charles Ives and (especially) Igor Stravinsky, yet SKIES never appears derivative. Ornette Coleman, with his richly evocative w... |
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