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	village voice > music > by Gary Giddins
		The climax is astounding, a harmolodic jig built entirely on quadruplets—a spare, mostly quarter-note figure propelled furiously into rapid-fire eighth and sixteenth notes, all built on a four-note foundation, and finally lifting off like a rocket.
		Then the tune charges into harmolodic heaven—worked up by repetition from a quasi-blues to a fervid chant and improved by a hot closing cadence—as Dancing in Your Head's "Theme From a Symphony" (variations one and two), which excepting two brief tracks with the Master Musicians of Jajouka (one previously unissued) constitutes the short—by watch-time only—disc.
		At Battery Park, the harmolodic strain will connect the extremes of his extraordinary achievement and masters and newcomers will have the opportunity to find out who they are.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/sendmail.php3?eid=15285 (1234 words)

	Harmolodic system - Jazz Bulletin Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A harmolodic person is someone who can manifest himself in all kinds of different situations, whether it’s playing blues, rock and roll, jazz, and so on.
		A harmolodic person has to learn all of the American sounds, and jazz is a part of the American sound.
		A harmolodic chord is a chord that cannot be inverted.
	forums.allaboutjazz.com /showthread.php?t=12600 (1510 words)

	San Francisco Bay Guardian \| Arts and Entertainment
		The gloriously liberating sonic disorder typified by the initial waves of so-called "free jazz" during the 1960s has spread through divergent streams in contemporary music, and credit is due to Coleman as one of the founding fathers.
		In harmolodic music, all instruments are free to operate at equal levels of importance within the ensemble, thereby eliminating the necessity of the well-worn soloist-plus-accompaniment dichotomy and facilitating total group improvisation.
		The harmolodic concept is simple to hear as pure music, but as time has gone on, Coleman has hinted at a rather labyrinthine rhetoric behind the logic.
	www.sfbg.com /40/05/art_music_ww.html (844 words)

	The Gig
		Basically, harmolodics (a conflation of harmony, melody and movement) engenders a system by which notated intervals can be transposed (or superimposed) to any number of key signatures, resulting in a more or less improvised harmonic terrain.
		Another proponent of harmolodic theory is Philly’s own Bobby Zankel, an alto saxophonist and composer who has apprenticed with jazz’s other living free-jazz prophet, Cecil Taylor.
		And what that does then is put you in an area where you’re telling a story that keeps going." His trio music, he suggests, fulfills this goal by "continually evolving phrase by phrase." This is admittedly less true of Warriors of the Wonderful Sound, the 12-piece ensemble that Zankel has been leading since midsummer.
	citypaper.net /articles/110801/mus.thegig.shtml (451 words)

	Harmolodic Product
		Later on, his scientific theory of shared group composition/interplay/improvisation known as Harmolodics, produced music that defies gravity.
		"Harmolodics, in a philosophical sense, says there's many different ways and devices to approach something," explains Ornette's son, Denardo, on the group's creative process.
		But Ornette may have created the ultimate "harmolodic" work with his former wife, post-beat, post-bop poet Jayne Cortez, when the two combined to make Denardo.
	citypaper.net /articles/101096/article022.shtml (1048 words)

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		All the while, he was composing, studying music, and incubating the origins of his theories, which would come to be known as "Harmolodics," the catch-all, difficult-to-define label for all things Coleman.
		Likened to a family all talking at the same time, the "Harmolodic" concept broke all the rules, abandoning chord-based structure for tonal and rhythmic expression, all players operating democratically, independent of the melody, yet empathic of each other.
		The one in '75 was teenagers and they had just really started on the instruments, so I had a first opportunity to assure Harmolodics with them, and the second Harmolodic band was made up of people who had been playing classical music.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/vol16/issue12/music.coleman.html (3381 words)

	iBreatheMusic Forums - Harmolodic Chords (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I've started looking into 'harmolodic' on the web, and so far what I've found is equally cryptic.
		Okay...I've snuck in a little more research this am and found that I've made the mistake that apparently a lot of folks have--and that is to assume 'harmolodic' refers to some theory-based kind of musical structure or defined style of harmonization.
		He is also on the album Song X with Ornette Coleman which is basically a harmolodic album.
	www.ibreathemusic.com /forums/showthread.php?t=2459 (1141 words)

	Music Revelation Ensemble : After Dark - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		There is also the first recorded attempt by Ulmer to write for harmolodic guitar and string quartet; later, on DIW 878, he wrote and recorded an entire album for this setting.
		Rochester triple-times Murray, and Ulmer is off creating polytonal drones until his opportunity to solo arrives and he just removes entire sections from the melody and creates his own; Amin Ali holds him in by playing a harmolodic equivalent to a tonal scale, but it's grooved out which moves Blood further toward the edge.
		This is really a beginning of his expansion of the harmolodic method, free of scale and open diatonically to every tone in the schemata.
	www.artistdirect.com /store/artist/album/0,,136031,00.html (572 words)

	Ornette Coleman Mailing List
		This can be especially nice for someone who wants to share pictures they have taken of Ornette, or, in a discussion of harmolodic theory, wishes to post some musical notation or a short sound file of their performance to use as an example.
		Harmolodics is less a set of musical rules than a description of the way Ornette Coleman sees life.
		He has (or had) a deal with Verve to release cd's on his Harmolodic label, and has put out reissues of some of his older records, but has stated that he has more interest in releasing new material than old.
	www.geocities.com /BourbonStreet/Delta/8835/ornettemail.html (1245 words)

	wordsandmusic
		Yet I did not have a Harmolodic Band to compose and perform with as a working band.
		And a last thought – here's a polemic that states punk was birthed from radical jazz – which in a way brings all of this round in a circle...
		Not to downplay Ulmer's contributions – he really is good on his first session as leader, firing off single note lines and savagely strummed chords that crosswire jazz and funk and blues with the aggression of the downtown post-punk scene.
	soundsandtexts.blogspot.com (5400 words)

	Robert Christgau: CG: Artist 1036
		Most great lyric artists shore up their effusions with irony, but the way this music confounds mind-body dualism should provide all the release from tension anyone needs.
		And the way the players break into ripples of song only to ebb back into the tideway is participatory democracy at its most practical and utopian.
		Packed by their eternal leader into ten cuts averaging 3:22, Cherry-Haden-Higgins surge hotter at fifty than they ever dreamed old or new, as if harmolodic funk is an essentially structural principle, inhering more in the constraints of song conception that in the electric pulse.
	www.robertchristgau.com /get_artist.php?id=1036&name=Ornette+Coleman (531 words)

	Howard Mandel, Jazz Critic - Jazz Writing - Ornette Coleman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Coleman is, after all, the living artist most devoted to questioning a priori concepts, challenging conventions of longstanding, and re-shaping at the very least, the hierarchies of sound.
		When Harmolodics Inc. (named for Coleman's unified field theory of music) celebrated his 70th last April at Joe's Pub in New York's Public Theater, he greeted me happily, grasped my hand in his, and spontaneously announced, "Howard, it really does pay to be a good person" -- a statement I took as a blessing.
		Think about it, parse it, hear Coleman say it, bring it to mind while you listen perhaps to Prime Time's Tone Dialing, which is full to the brim with harmolodic conundrums.
	www.howardmandel.com /OColeman.php3 (1975 words)

	James Blood Ulmer interview- Perfect Sound Forever
		To start back working on that in that manner and with those instruments and making a good effort of continuing what we call harmolodic music where the instruments are in key, playing all 12 notes at the same time.
		That's where it's very valuable to know harmolodic music where you don't have to depend on the chords and the scales.
		What I was really trying to demonstrate on that record was to show how you could take a harmolodic melody-- I chose Coleman's music which I thought was direct harmolodic melody-- and play it on your instrument and get the same value out of it as he got from playing it on alto.
	www.furious.com /perfect/bloodulmer.html (3707 words)

	fUSION Anomaly. Ornette Coleman
		Though it is often called "free jazz," Coleman preferred the term "harmolodic." Since that time he has led numerous other bands, composed classical music and film scores, and performed and recorded with myriad musicians including Jerry Garcia, Pat Metheny, and the traditional Moroccan group of
		In the early 1970's Ornette traveled throughout Morocco and Nigeria playing with the local musicians and interpreting the melodic and rhythmic complexities of their music into his Harmolodic approach.
		And now the dawning of the Harmolodic record label for which Ornette has been heavily involved in new recordings.
	www.fusionanomaly.net /ornettecoleman.html (785 words)

	languagehat.com: HARMOLODIC.
		Melody, composition, improvisors, styles in their present form will become Harmolodic according to each one's own concept.
		I think the term "harmolodic" has morphed into something that applies to a lot more than music.
		At least that's the sense I got from a recent interview with Blood Ulmer in Guitar Player (which does not appear to be on line).
	www.languagehat.com /archives/001197.php (784 words)

	A Review of Ornette Coleman: A Harmolodic Life
		If you're reading this book to get a firm grasp of Coleman's far-reaching musical concept, harmolodics, you're in for a disappointment -- through no fault of Litweiler's, however, since neither Ornette nor his followers seem able to offer a clear explanation.
		Trumpeter Don Cherry, Coleman's musical companion, offers a bit more enlightenment in the liner notes to the glorious Rhino release of Ornette's complete Atlantic recordings: the harmolodic concept, he says, "is one of the profound systems today for both Western and Eastern music.
		By my reckoning, Ornette Coleman: A Harmolodic Life, while an achievement, will not be the last word on this man and his musical revolution, in the way that Brian Priestley's Mingus biography or Jack Chamber's Milestones, to give two examples, are definitive.
	www-cs.canisius.edu /~bucheger/OrnetteReview.html (1276 words)

	Robert Christgau: CG: Artist 1036
		Only the second LP by the harmolodic funk originators, this was recorded live at the well-appointed Fort Worth avant-garde emporium in 1985, and it's a live album for sure--it lacks the studio-engendered beginning-middle-end that focuses Of Human Feelings and for that matter Metheny/Coleman's Song X.
		Well, never mind--this collaboration is the best pure jazz album Coleman's made since I started keeping track in the early '70s.
		No rock moves, and no funk, harmolodic or otherwise--it's all sweet lyricism, sonic comedy, and headlong invention.
	www.robertchristgau.com /get_artist2.php?id=1036 (996 words)

	New York Metro
		More than a decade ago, when jazz legend Ornette Coleman started renting space on 125th Street on the East Side of Manhattan, the original plan was simply to set up a rehearsal studio, but it evolved into something much more important.
		Today, his warm-feeling facility, Harmolodic Recording Studios (www.harmolodicstudios.com), may be the only world-class recording studio in Harlem.
		For Harmolodic and its clientele, which ranges from rock to hip hop, world music and, of course, jazz, the first of those needs was a standout Studio A console/monitors combination.
	mixonline.com /mag/audio_new_york_metro_27/index.html (1110 words)

	Ornette Coleman - @ Jazz Pipeline .com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Albums like 'Virgin Beauty' and 'Of Human Feelings' used rock and funk rhythms, electric guitars and keyboards, but the music was still much the same under the hood.
		Some critics have suggested Coleman's frequent use the vaguely-defined term "harmolodic" is a musical MacGuffin: a red herring of sorts designed to occupy critics over-focused on Coleman's sometimes unorthodox compositional style.
		Although now an elder statesman of jazz, Coleman continues to push himself into unusual playing situations, often with much younger musicians or musicians from radically different musical cultures, and continues to perform regularly.
	www.jazzpipeline.com /Jazz_Artists_Biographies/ornette_coleman.htm (887 words)

	Stigsite - Steuart Liebig Official Site
		The mid-'40s visits of beboppers ç Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie opened the ears of L.A. musicians - - including those of Mingus and his friend Eric Dolphy, a wizardly wind player - - to the possibility of incorporating any note, not just the ones everyone considered "musical," into their improvisations.
		And the post-Parker trend reached its furthest ex ploration when Fort Worth saxist Ornette Coleman hooked up with New Orleans' Ed Blackwell, Iowa's Charlie Haden, and L.A.'s Don Cherry and Billy Higgins in the City of the Angels to play Coleman's "harmolodic" music, which did away with chord changes altogether.
		When Coleman split town for good as the '60s dawned, the torch was passed to those of his associates who remained here off and on, including bassist Haden, trumpeter Cherry, drummer Higgins, cornetist Bobby Bradford and clarinetist John Carter.
	stigsite.com /weekly_lamusos.html (1557 words)

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	Find in a Library: Ornette Coleman : a harmolodic life
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	Zoho Music - January 10, 2006 Release: Edsel Gomez - Cubist Music, with David Sanchez, Miguel Zenon, Don Byron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		So in this piece I make variations out of the melody line of his classic ‘Adoracion,’ a tune that every musician studying Latin music would recognize.”
		“Harmolodic Collage” is a collection of snippets from the session that was spliced together by Mark Stedman while “W 54th St. Theme” is a Cubist portrait of the late night atmosphere around the Bistro Latino, where Edsel played four nights a week soon after ariving in New York.
		As he recalls, “We would leave from the gig at 2 a.m., go outside and know everybody on the street -- the guy on the corner giving out fliers for strip joints, the taxi drivers, other musicians.
	www.zohomusic.com /cds_detail.php?cds_id=30 (1426 words)

	Out Front, OutBack on KUSP-FM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ornette Coleman/Charlie Haden- Human Being- Soapsuds, Soapsuds- Harmolodic- '77
		Ornette Coleman/Joachim Kuhn- Passion Cultures- Colors- Harmolodic- '96
		Ornette Coleman- What Reason- Sound Museum: Hidden Man- Harmolodic- @'96
	www.kusp.org /playlists/ofob/ofob1099.html (237 words)

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	Jazz Directory - Ornette Coleman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Official home page of Harmolodic, Ornette Coleman's musical organization.
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