Ornette: Made in America

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DVD Details

  • Run Time: 1 hours, 18 minutes
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: November 11, 2014
  • Originally Released: 1985
  • Label: Milestone Video

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Rating: 3/5 -- Ornette: Made In America is an unusual hybrid of straight documentary and art film. Full Review
The Dissolve
Nov 10, 2014
A match made in heaven between avant-garde jazz and avant-garde cinema. Full Review
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Dec 2, 2014
Rating: 4/5 -- Coleman's life and work are treated as a continuum, which Clarke pulls from at will. Full Review
Time Out
Aug 28, 2012
Though Ornette: Made in America is hardly a straight-up biographical doc ... it's the place to go to unlock some of the most precious secrets of Ornette. Full Review
Village Voice
Jul 14, 2015
Rating: B -- An ambitious offbeat documentary about the elusive Texas avant-garde jazz saxophonist and innovator Ornette Coleman. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Nov 15, 2014
Made in America captures a truly restless artist still seeking some ever-elusive musical transcendence. It's a terrific film. Full Review
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
Nov 18, 2015
Shirley Clarke's 1985 documentary about the seminal jazz innovator Ornette Coleman joins an impressionistic portrait of the musician with an informative overview of his life, work, and ideas. Full Review
New Yorker
Apr 6, 2015

Product Description:

This feature-length documentary is devoted to the life and art of famed jazz musician Ornette Coleman. Saxophonist, trumpeter, violinist--you name the musical instrument, and supreme stylist Coleman will make magic with it. At the time this film was made, Coleman had not turned out an album in years, though he was still active on the concert circuit. Filmmaker Shirley Clarke focuses on Coleman's appearance with the symphony orchestra in his home town of Fort Worth, Texas. Also featured are extensive interview sequences, and clips from such earlier short subjects as Dick Fontaine's THE ORNETTE COLEMAN TRIO, featuring such major talents as Charley Haden, Don Cherry, and Darnel Coleman, Ornette's son. Completed in 1985, ORNETTE MADE IN AMERICA was released on a general basis two years later.

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  • UPC: 784148014241
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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