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Ornette Coleman And The Future History Of Jazz at Music at Woodmere: Friday Night Jazz Series at Woodmere Art Museum

Courtesy of Gabrielle Turgoose | Posted on August 23, 2016

Where

Woodmere Art Museum
Music at Woodmere: Friday Night Jazz Series

9201 Germantown Avenue
Philadelphia, PA
Map
(215) 247-0476

When

Fri, December 9, 2016
6:00 pm

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Musicians

Ornette Coleman
saxophone, alto
Julian Pressley
saxophone, alto

About

Jazz is an ever-evolving, moving, and searching style of music that sometimes defies description. Ornette Coleman was a saxophonist and innovator of “free jazz,” an improvisational approach whose lasting impact on the genre is now history. Saxophonist Julian Pressley takes on some of Coleman’s classic compositions—“Lonely Woman,” “The Shape of Jazz to Come,” and more.

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