Summary
Prime Design/Time Design is a live album written by the American jazz composer Ornette Coleman and recorded by a string quartet, with Ornette's son Denardo Coleman on drums, at the Caravan of Dreams in 1985 and released on the Caravan of Dreams label.[1] The composition is dedicated to Coleman's "best hero," Buckminster Fuller, and is an interpretation of Fuller's "vision of the birth of the universe, the fusion of chaos and harmony".[2]
| Prime Design/Time Design | ||||
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| Released | 1985 | |||
| Recorded | 1985 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Caravan of Dreams | |||
| Producer | Kathelin Hoffman | |||
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Excerpts from the performance of Prime Design/Time Design appeared in Shirley Clarke's 1985 film Ornette: Made in America.[3]
Reception edit
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [4] |
The AllMusic review awarded the album 1½ stars.[4]
Syd Fablo of RockSalted stated that he sees the album as "being in service of an agenda completely independent of genre categories like jazz/classical," and commented: "it is indeed remarkable how Ornette manages to create some of the same 'sourness' of tone that he achieves in his alto saxophone playing through written notation for a string quartet. And yet there is a grim, determined hopefulness to the music."[5]
Track listing edit
- All compositions by Ornette Coleman
- "Prime Design/Time Design Part 1"
- "Prime Design/Time Design Part 2"
- Recorded at the Caravan of Dreams in Fort Worth, Texas in 1985 by Ron St.Germain & David Hewitt on the Record Plant NY Black Truck.
Personnel edit
- Gregory Gelman, Larissa Blitz - violin
- Alex Deych - viola
- Matthew Meister - cello
- Denardo Coleman - drums
References edit
- ^ Ornette Coleman discography accessed November 26, 2011
- ^ Golia, Maria (2020). Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure. Reaktion Books.
- ^ Chinen, Nate (August 30, 2012). "Freewheeling Musician Gets Free-Form Tribute". New York Times. Retrieved July 26, 2022.
- ^ a b Allmusic Review accessed November 26, 2011
- ^ Fablo, Syd (December 19, 2017). "Ornette Coleman – Prime Design / Time Design". RockSalted. Retrieved July 26, 2022.
