Ornette: Made in America - Film Tonight at 6:30pm

You should definitely check out the FREE screening of the film Ornette: Made in America tonight at 6:30pm on the second floor of the Firehouse Center.

Here's a little bit of info about this film to entice you:

The film Ornette: Made In America captures Ornette’s evolution over three decades. Returning home to Fort Worth, Texas in 1983 as a famed performer and composer, documentary footage, dramatic scenes, and some of the first music video-style segments ever made, chronicle his boyhood in segregated Texas and his subsequent emergence as an American cultural pioneer and world-class icon. Among those who contribute to the film include William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Buckminster Fuller, Don Cherry, Yoko Ono, Charlie Haden, Robert Palmer, Jayne Cortez and John Rockwell.

Ornette:Made in America is essential for anyone hoping to understand the history of jazz and the fertile creative exchange that highlighted the 60’s and 70’s in America. It is a portrayal of the inner life of an artist-innovator.

The film focuses on the struggles and triumphs of Ornette Coleman’s life as well as on the inspired intelligence that spawned his creativity and ensured his success. Clarke’s footage includes Ornette in conversation with family and friends; excerpts of interviews, riffs and travels, along with footage of his performances—in his hometown of Fort Worth, TX, in New York, in Morocco and beyond—presents the most comprehensive record of his career available.

Here's some raves about the film:

“A unique portrait of a jazz giant.” —San Francisco Chronicle

"A wonderful film of the complex Ornette." —San Francisco Examiner

"A unique project whose composition rejects boundaries…in favor of a more allusive path…the footage is riveting…stunning…definitely valuable." —The Wire (London)

“This is an experience unique to the medium of film." —L.A. Weekly

"Clarke thrusts the viewer into his music and his mind." —Twin Cities Reader (Minneapolis)

"This film is not just a film about a great musician…it is, as the title suggests, also a film about America…and it is brilliant."- —Richard Roud, Director, Film Society of Lincoln Center .

Enjoy - and come back and tell everyone what you thought!!!!