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Ornette Coleman is the first jazz musician/composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for music.
- http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/16/entertainment/e143845D85.DTL (Open in New Window)
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This should have happened already earlier, latest after his extraordinarily realized "Sound Museum" albums eleven years ago. But better late than never.
Well deserved. I have to laugh, though, at how many musicians and music lovers still don't get his music after 50 years. Now they have to take him seriously because he won a Pulitzer, whether they want to or not.Congrats, Ornette! Keep going!!!!
P.S To this day I continue to be amazed that with all the stuff Impulse has reissued, they still haven't put out the two Ornette discs on CD. I have the vinyl so it's cool but it surprises me.
Which albums are you referring to?
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...but for my money Ornette is infinitely more deserving.
said he was the first to win a Pulitzer Prize for a jazz composition. According to the article, Marsalis won it in 1997 for a three hour oratorio about the history of slavery.Regards,
..."classical" composition, but although Blood on the Fields may be of the scope of an oratorio it is certainly in a jazz idiom and, as I recall, employs many passages of soloing/improvising. In jazz the line between composition and performance remains fluid, as the performance is itself an emergent aspect of the composing.
And I thought Pulitzer was for literature(books) only...hey, I am delighted for Ornette, he deserves the recognition.
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