Herb Snitzer in Five Spot Café - the 1960's
from Glorious Days and Nights: A Jazz Memoir, page 24:
One of the great evenings was opening night of the Ornette Coleman quintet at the Five Spot. The place was absolutely jammed. You couldn't move. In the audience that first night were Thelonious Monk, Leonard Bernstein, and a whole raft of jazz musicians who came out to hear this young soprano saxophonist from Texas with a reputation for making music in a way that had never been done before, free-form jazz music. It was so democratic in the way they went about it, it seemed as if there was no structure to what they were doing. Adding to the mystique was that Ornette played his music on a … more >>
cite as
Herb Snitzer, Glorious Days and Nights: A Jazz Memoir (City of Jackson, 2011), p. 24. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1428402989541 accessed: 5 December, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers
free-form jazz
written by Ornette Coleman Quintet |
performed by Don Cherry (trumpeter), Ornette Coleman, Charlie Haden, Buster Williams |
Experience Information
Date/Time | the 1960's |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by 5011Henning on Tue, 07 Apr 2015 11:36:29 +0100
Approved on Fri, 28 Aug 2015 13:41:53 +0100