Ornette Coleman
Battery Park, NYC
June 1, 2000
ornette says sound is
imagination free of grammar sound is grammar free yarmulke prayer sway hands
clasped neath tree “last time I seen Miles was” freedom symbol chamber dozens
global expression harmolodics homicide administered ornette match foghorn blow
unwelcome jackhammer accompaniment enraged the crowd erupts “turn it down –
turn that machine down” lights
brought up and still they hit it hit it hit it sound is free of grammar hear no sound but the glory of three “THANK
YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!”
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“ornette is
a genius, he can do whatever he wants”
the sound will follow you as well/squeal and
squirm/shift and drift/here & also there/challenged by multiple through
lines (rivers)/hover above white rust/stick flies off into black/before word,
sound/pause to breathe/ snapped out of a reverie/up and leaves/low moan crawls
forward/Ornette picks up the trumpet briefly, puts it down/dread builds/where
are we going?/who will show us the way?/chest cracked open like a walnut
shell/vortex release/tide pulls/red stretch around the front/miles invoked,
summoned/sunrise convulsion/look at out/funk stroll/whole life in the bag
you’re in/blondes arise in mind’s eye/ follow (him) up/are you in the right
building?/the right church?/doors once open never close/sound like him/
resurrect him?/finished, not/suddenly a violin/ interjects/to attend
to/delicate circularity/five become one/don’t put a number on/not everyone
departs/ together/wipe away, move/secret to be/ completely awake/yet
malleable/so many moments/missed/notes work their way in up out & through/flutter
seed/attention/trickster polymath/complex equations/stepped up/twos become
threes/ejaculatory breakthrough/
"thank you, ornette"
encore: look/remember/lonely
woman/precedent/evening praise/circle closed/complete
dance
of clarity
the road forms
under our feet
new foundation
of our creation
Christopher
Luna
Arlene
Shnitzer Concert Hall
Friday
February 15, 2008
With thanks for Antoinette, who bought me the tickets.
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