Jamaaladeen Tacuma, an original member of Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time, once said that the saxophonist’s theory of harmolodics—a place where melody, harmony and rhythm are equal to and independent from each other, at once—“is a small glimpse of a natural, organic way of executing sound; where sound was more important than notes.” Harmolodics, then, is … Continue reading Essential New Music: Ornette Coleman And Various Artists’ “Celebrate Ornette”