
Jazz à la Villette Opens With a Bold Tribute to Ornette Coleman
This is Beirut, 27/08 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Music Festival Jazz à la Villette Tribute Ornette Coleman Culture
The reinterpretation this Saturday at the Philharmonie of The Shape of Jazz to Come, a cult album by multi-instrumentalist Ornette Coleman released in 1959, will be a highlight of the Jazz à La Villette festival in Paris, which kicks off on Thursday. This album, extremely avant-garde at the time, caused a stir upon its release. Ornette Coleman, ...