ORNETTE: MADE IN AMERICA - BLU

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• Release Year: 1985
• Genre: Documentary, Music
• Plot: Shirley Clarke's Ornette: Made In America captures Ornette Coleman's evolution over three decades as it chronicles his boyhood in segregated Texas and his subsequent emergence as an American cultural pioneer and world class icon. The documentary explores the rhythms, images and myths of America seen through the eyes of an artist's ever-expanding imagination and experience.; ; Clarke followed Ornette and his young son Denardo starting in the late 1960s and then ending with a homecoming tribute in his hometown of Fort Worth in 1983. The tribute featured a gala concert of his seminal 'Skies of America' alongside performances with his Prime Time band. The innovative techniques that director Shirley Clarke (and producer Kathelin Hoffman Gray) employed in the film closely parallel Ornette's music—eschewing traditional documentary styles with breathtaking originality to reveal Ornette's equally extraordinary vision.; ; Ornette: Made in America is essential for anyone hoping to understand the history of jazz and the fertile creative exchange that highlighted the 60s and 70s in America. It is a vivid portrayal of the inner life of a legendary and pioneering artist.;
• Cast: Ornette Coleman, John Giordano, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Prime Time, William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Don Cherry, Robert Palmer, George Russell, Denardo Coleman, James Clay, Jayne Cortez, Truvenza Leach, Martin Williams, Charlie Haden, John Rockwell, Demon Marshall, Eugene Tatum, Bern Nix, Bob Bolen, Dewey Redman, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Charles Ellerbe, Sabir Kamal, Albert McDowell, Shirley Clarke
• Director: Shirley Clarke
• Runtime: 1:17
• Company: Caravan of Dreams Productions, Milestone Film & Video, Oscilloscope Laboratories
• Media Format: Movie