Ended the weekend and welcomed the week after a walk with Skies of America the 17th album by jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman, released on Columbia Records in 1972...

..Coleman took a sabbatical to Montana in 1965. Coleman witnessed a group of Native Americans and it inspired him.

"It was so cold," he said of that time in Montana. "It must have been 2 or 3 below zero, and when I saw the American Indians praying, doing their purity ritual, they looked like their bodies were transparent. All of a sudden, I saw the American Indian and the sky as the same people. It taught me something about religion, race, wealth, poverty, commerce. I said: 'Oh, I'm going to go over to the other side. I only want to be on the side of the consciousness that comes to people naturally.'" - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4Qi9UzQt9M

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Friends and Neighbors: Live at Prince Street is a live album by the American jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman recorded in 1970 and released on the Flying Dutchman label.

In a retrospective review for Allmusic, jazz writer Scott Yanow found the music "typically adventurous, melodic in its own way, yet still pretty futuristic, even if (compared with his other releases) the set as a whole is not all that essential".[2] Writing in MSN Music, Robert Christgau believed it has the unintended feel of a jam session, as Coleman's "time-tested Charlie Haden-Ed Blackwell rhythm section beefed up by Dewey Redman, whose tenor is always there to add some body when Ornette picks up a trumpet or violin." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC9tvMeB3MU&list=PLaYR2vrMxRqoBiqcbAK-XsBHNhdTJbJL5&index=1

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The Avant-Garde is an album credited to jazz musicians John Coltrane and Don Cherry that was released in 1966 by Atlantic Records. It features Coltrane playing several compositions by Ornette Coleman accompanied by the members of Coleman's quartet: Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Ed Blackwell. The album was assembled from two unissued recording sessions at Atlantic Studios in New York City in 1960.

On "Focus on Sanity", Cherry and Coltrane complement each other with contrasting sound as Coltrane "leaps into [the music] like a man possessed, while Cherry answers with a feathery tone." - Wikipedia

An LP I first heard back in the 80s as a teen, having borrowed it from Preston Library when libraries had vinyl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqLi9xhm_Uc

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i played an ornette coleman side uncoerced, rather enjoyed it, played the other side

what is happening to me?

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