Dick Fontaine - David, Moffett and Ornette & Sound??

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David, Moffett and Ornette: The Ornette Coleman Trio (1966)
Sound?? (1967)
By Richard “Dick” Fontaine

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Format: avi | Size: 602.5MB
Total runtime: 53mins
Language: English
Subtitles: incl. French and Spanish (vobsub)
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David, Moffett, and Ornette
Free jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman and his trio are in Paris to record the soundtrack to a living theater project entitled “Who’s Crazy?” The trio reflects on the state of their music and artistry, as well as the undercurrent of racism in the US. (1966/B&W/26mins )

“It is one of the best filmed jazz performances I have ever seen.” — Martin Williams, JAZZ TIMES

Sound??
Reflections on sound from John Cage, as he prepares to build a musical bicycle. Cage’s narration intertwines with a rousing and offbeat performance by Rashaan Roland Kirk, the highly original jazz musician known for playing several horns at one time. (1967/B&W/27mins)

Kirk plays three saxes at once, switches to flute, incorporates tapes of birds played backwards, and finally hands out whistles to his audience and encourages them to accompany him, “in the key of W, if you please.” Cage, on the other hand, is preparing a work for musical bicycle with David Tudor and Merce Cunningham at the Seville Theatre in London. Cage meets Rahsaan’s music in an echo chamber, and he ends his search for the sound of silence in his favorite spot — the anechoic chamber — where it turns out to be the uproar of “your nervous system in operation.”

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