"Ornette Coleman 'arrived in New York in 1959,' writes Philip Clark, 'with a white plastic saxophone and a set of ideas about improvisation that would shake jazz to its big apple core.' Every big name in jazz was doing something similar at the time, inventing new styles and languages. Coleman went further out there than anyone, infuriating and frustrating other jazz pioneers like Miles Davis. He called his theory 'Harmolodics,' a Buckminster Fuller-like melding of 'harmony,' 'movement,' and 'melody' that he coined in the 1970s. The manifesto explaining his ideas reads like psychedelic Dada. ..."
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