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Title Ornette : made in America / directed by Shirley Clarke ; music by Ornette Coleman ; produced by Kathelin Hoffman
Published Kino Lorber, 1985
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (77 minutes) : .flv file, sound
Contents A musical journey -- Mayor of Forth Worth, Texas -- For the opening of "Caravan of dreams," a performing arts center : Ornette Coleman returns home to perform his works -- Premiere of Ornette Coleman's "Skies of America," the Fort Worth Symphony, John Giordano, conductor -- House where Ornette was born -- Symphony Hall, Forth Worth -- Ornette, New York City, 1968 -- Ornette's son, Denardo, at 12 -- Father and son, 1984 -- Running away from home -- Theatre troupe from the Caravan of Dreams -- A musical journey begins... -- Martin Luther King's march on Washington 1968 -- "Sun suite,"San Francisco Symphony, Berkeley, California, 1969 -- "Dal 'Palalido' di Milano," concerto registrato il 4 marzo 1980, Italian television, 1980 -- "Artist's house," NYC, 1972 -- The musicians of Nigeria, 1972 -- William Burroughs, writer -- Brion Gysin, painter in Morocco, 1973 -- Bob Palmer, musician and critic, New York Times -- Burroughs reading at Caravan of Dreams opening -- George Russell, composer and professor, New England Conservatory of Music -- At Forth Worth premiere dedicated to Buckminster Fuller -- Voice of Buckminster Fuller -- "The link," satellite connection between Lower Manhattan and Harlem -- Denardo Coleman talking to his mother, Jayne Cortez -- Jayne Cortez, poet -- James Clay, musician -- Truvenza Leach, Ornette's sister -- Martin Williams, jazz critic, Smithsonian Institute -- John Giordano, conductor, Fort Worth Symphony -- George Russell, composer -- John Rockwell, author and critic, New York Times -- [Denardo Coleman and Ornette Coleman on personal experiences]
Summary Returning in 1983 to his home in Fort Worth, Texas, documentary footage and dramatic scenes recall legendary performer and composer Ornette Coleman's rise from oppressed youth to cultural pioneer. Raised in segregated Texas before traveling the world from Morocco to New York, his subsequent emergence as a world-class earned Ornette praise from the lines of icon William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Buckminster Fuller, Don Cherry, Yoko Ono, Charlie Haden, Robert Palmer and more - all contributors to this film. Featuring some of the first music-video-style footage of its time, director Shirley Clarke and producer Kathelin Hoffman employed innovative techniques to capture the extraordinary vision of the man behind the music. Ornette: Made in America is essential for anyone hoping to understand the history of jazz and the fertile creative exchange that highlighted the 60's and 70's in America
Notes Title from title frames
"A Milestone film release."
Originally produced by Kino Lorber in 1985
Warning: contains flashing images that may cause discomfort and/or seizures
Credits Ornette Coleman, composer ; Shirley Clarke, director, editor ; Kathelin Hoffman, producer ; Ed Lachman, director of photography ; Johnny Dolphin, creative consultant ; Lorraine T. Miller, assistant producer ; Iris Cahn, supervising editor ; Sanford Rackow, sound mixer
Performer Ornette Coleman ; Bob Bolen, mayor ; Demon Marshall (young Ornette) ; Eugene Tatum (teenage Ornette) ; Fort Worth Symphony ; John Giordano, conductor ; Prime Time Band (Denardo Coleman, Charles Ellerbe, Sabir Kamal, Albert McDowell, Bern Nix, Jamaaladeen Tacuma) ; The Gregory Gelman Ensemble (Gregory Gelman, Alex Deych, Larissa Blitz, Matthew Meister) ; Ornette's Band 1960-75 (Ed Blackwell, Charlie Haden, Don Cherry, Dewey Redman) ; William Burroughs ; Brion Gysin, Bob Palmer, George Russell, Buckminster Fuller ; Denardo Coleman ; Jayne Cortez ; James Clay ; Truvenza Leach ; Martin Williams ; John Giordano ; John Rockwell ; Viva ; Gabrielle ; Roger Hughes Jr. ; Calvin Weston ; Sheila Kelly ; Charles "Farina" Waters ; James Jordan ; Chutney Dugan ; Margaret Augustine ; James Stewart ; O.C. Allen ; Christine Smith ; Master Musicians of Jajouka ; Hausa ; Ibo ; Youruba Musicians--Nigeria ; San Francisco Symphony ; Caravan of Dreams theater ensemble ; The Plastic Ono Band
Notes In English
Subject Coleman, Ornette -- Biography
SUBJECT Coleman, Ornette fast
Subject Biography.
Music.
History.
Documentary films.
Arts.
music (discipline)
history (discipline)
Arts
Biography
Documentary films
History
Music
Genre/Form documentary film.
Biographies
Documentary films
Documentary films.
Documentaires.
Form Streaming video
Author Coleman, Ornette, composer, interiewee, instrumentalist
Marshall, Demon, actor
Tatum, Eugene, actor
Giordano, John, 1937- conductor, interviewee.
Coleman, Ornette Denardo, instrumentalist, interviewee
Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997, interiewee.
Gysin, Brion, interiewee
Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983, interiewee.
Cortez, Jayne, interviewee
Clay, James, 1935-1995, interviewee.
Leach, Truvenza, interviewee
Williams, Martin, 1924-1992, interviewee.
Rockwell, John, 1940- interviewee.
Ono, Yōko, instrumentalist
Clarke, Shirley, 1919-1997, film director.
Lachman, Edward, 1948- director of photography.
Hoffman, Kathelin, film producer
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, instrumentalist.
Prime Time (Musical group), instrumentalist.
Gregory Gelman Ensemble, instrumentalist.
Plastic Ono Band, instrumentalist.
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, instrumentalist.
Kino Lorber (Firm) distributor
Kanopy (Firm), distributor.