ornette as sideman

[alocispepraluger102]

on mcclean's gospel new and old, ornette appears as a sideman. on how many others is he a sideman. the number cant be large.

[kh1958]

Paul Bley--the early live recordings at the Hillcrest club.

Howard Shore's Naked Lunch Soundtrack.

Charlie Haden's duet album on Horizon.

James Blood Ulmer's Tales of Captain Black on Artists House.

[Spontooneous]

Geri Allen, "Eyes in the Back of Your Head"

a spot or two on Jamaaladeen Tacuma's Gramavision recordings

[ep1str0phy]

On top of what has been mentioned already:

Ornette actually appeared on both Haden's The Golden Number and Closeness, playing trumpet on the former and alto on the latter...

I believe he appeared on Joe Henry's Scar-

On a Rolf Kuhn album called Affairs-

On an album by French singer Claude Nougaro (a brief and highly-paid guest spot)-

(with the Blackwell/Haden/Izenzon quartet, I believe) on Yoko Ono's Plastic Ono Band album (the one with John)-

-an Al Macdowell Time Peace album-

-and also on the bewildering Lou Reed The Raven project, on which he essays a finely-hewn solo in the Prime Time mold. Reed spends the remainder of the album bemoaning his decaying testicles.

Edited March 29, 2010 by ep1str0phy

[AndrewHill]

Metheny's "Song X" although I think he may be co-credited.

[Chuck Nessa]

also Gunther Schuller and possibly Bill Samuels.

[Rooster_Ties]

James Blood Ulmer's Tales of Captain Black on Artists House.

:tup :tup

[B. Clugston]

He's also on the Lenox School of Music concert bootleg.

[Rooster_Ties]

Boots/tapes of him sitting in with the Dead exist (one of their free tune, isn't that the 'space jam'? -- and one 'conventional' tune), live on stage when Prime Time opened for them. Among the only recordings of the Dead I own, on cassettes I haven't seen nor listened to in 15+ years.

[Rooster_Ties]

Does Ornette really play on a track on this Bruce Hornsby box set?? - Intersections 1985-2005. The AMG thinks so.

[AndrewHill]

James Blood Ulmer's Tales of Captain Black on Artists House.

Second this. Wish DIW would've used the original Artist's House album cover, which is pretty badazz.

[kh1958]

The track with the Master Musicians of Jojouka on Dancing in Your Head (and three unreleased LPs).

A recording with Clarence Samuels in 1949 in Natchez, Mississippi--not released or unknown.

John Lewis--Jazz Abstractions on Atlantic.

[brownie]

He was also among the singers in the recording of 'Louis Armstrong and His Friends' on Flying Dutchman and with the Yoko One Plastic One Band (Apple).

Also on that one:

and that one:

[Rooster_Ties]

Does Ornette really play on a track on this Bruce Hornsby box set?? - Intersections 1985-2005. The AMG thinks so.

Looking for something else, I stumbled on this thread, and a question I still don't know the answer to.

[kh1958]

On a new Jamaladeen Tacuma (For the Love of Ornette) release that I ordered three weeks ago from his website and still haven't received.

Edited February 22, 2011 by kh1958

[jeffcrom]

Doesn't look like anyone has mentioned Jamaaladeen Tacuma's Renaissance Man album; Ornette plays on a funky version of "Dancing in Your Head."

Edited February 22, 2011 by jeffcrom

[Justin V]

I've never heard it, but what about Satchmo's Louis Armstrong and His Friends, with Ornette (and Miles) on vocals? The fascinating list of sidemen can be found here: http://allmusic.com/album/louis-armstrong-and-his-friends-rcabluebird-r598321/credits.

Edited February 22, 2011 by Justin V

[DMP]

The Coleman appearance on the Armstrong LP is pretty subtle.

[David Gitin]

Boots/tapes of him sitting in with the Dead exist (one of their free tune, isn't that the 'space jam'? -- and one 'conventional' tune), live on stage when Prime Time opened for them. Among the only recordings of the Dead I own, on cassettes I haven't seen nor listened to in 15+ years.

I was there when Ornette played with The Dead at Oakland Coliseum in Feb. 1993 (Mardi Gras). Ornette opened and then later after intermission played the Space jam with the band leading into Love Light and Stella Blue.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

no way, really/ where you aware ornette was going to open the show before you went. thats pretty awesome show did i say pretty i mean extremely

Edited February 23, 2011 by chewy

[Mark Stryker]

On a new Jamaladeen Tacuma (For the Love of Ornette) release that I ordered three weeks ago from his website and still haven't received.

I have this, though have only heard it once -- some very nice moments but some meandering too. Need to go through it again with full attention paid. There's studio dialogue at one point and Ornette says, "Fellas, forget the notes and get to the ideas." Quintessential.