Posts Tagged ‘jazz’
My Dinner With Ornette
“I’m interested in bringing instant enlightenment.” I met Ornette Coleman for dinner on a late fall evening in a fashionable restaurant in downtown Boston. He was in town to meet the press a week before a December 15, 1984 concert at Berklee Performance Center with Prime Time, his “double”…
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“….I never got any offer from the Americans. They figured I was dangerous or something.” May 14, 1996 By phone from her apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan Abbey Lincoln was more than a remarkable singer and songwriter: She was a remarkable person, who made a mark as a civil rights…
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