Sound Grammar

Sound Grammar

Infobox Album |
Name = Sound Grammar
Type = Live album
Artist = Ornette Coleman


Released = September 2006
Recorded = 14 October 2005
Genre = Free jazz
Length = 56:11
Label = Sound Grammar
Producer = Ornette Coleman and Michaela Deiss
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:70vsa9cgr23h link]
* Music Box Rating|4|5 [http://www.musicbox-online.com/reviews-2007/ornettecoleman-soundgrammar.html link]
Last album = "Three Women"
(1996)
This album = "Sound Grammar"
(2006)
Next album =

"Sound Grammar" is an album by jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman, recorded live in Ludwigshafen, Germany, on 14 October 2005. The album was produced by Ornette Coleman and Michaela Deiss, and released on Coleman's new Sound Grammar label. It is his first new album in almost a decade, since the end of his relationship with Verve in the 1990s. It features a mix of new and old originals (some of the latter given new titles).

One unusual feature of the album that critics have frequently noted is Coleman's use of musical quotation: his solo on the blues "Turnaround" includes snatches of Richard Rodgers' "If I Loved You" and Stephen Foster's "Beautiful Dreamer"; even more unexpectedly, the theme of "Sleep Talking" begins with the same notes as Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring".

The reception of the album has been highly positive; it figured at or near the top of virtually every jazz magazine poll at the end of 2006, including "Downbeat" and "Jazz Times".

In 2006, "Sound Grammar" received a Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance. The following year, "Sound Grammar" won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Music.

Track listing

# "Intro" - 1:14 (MC's spoken introduction)
# "Jordan" - 6:32
# "Sleep Talking" - 8:55 (a.k.a. "Sleep Talk" from "Of Human Feelings")
# "Turnaround" - 4:06 (a.k.a. "Turnabout" from "Tomorrow Is the Question!")
# "Matador" - 5:57 (a.k.a. "Picolo Pesos" from "Sound Museum")
# "Waiting for You" - 6:50 (a.k.a. "House of Stained Glass" from "Colors")
# "Call to Duty" - 5:34 (has been performed live under the title "Crying Without Tears")
# "Once Only" - 9:40 (a.k.a. "If I only Knew as Much About You" from "Tone Dialing")
# "Song X" - 10:22 (from "Song X")

All compositions by Ornette Coleman.

Personnel

* Ornette Coleman - alto saxophone, violin, trumpet
* Denardo Coleman - drums, percussion
* Gregory Cohen - bass
* Tony Falanga - bass


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