Something Else! The Music of Ornette Coleman. Pianist Walter Norris described to me, in a 1990 interview, the peculiar preparations for the unconventional session: “We rehearsed two or three times a week for about six months leading up to the recording. A number of times we rehearsed at my house. I would take a paper and pen and make notes about the compositions and about what we were supposed to be doing. But the funny thing was that at every rehearsal Ornette would change what we had done the last time. He would change the structure of the song or where the rubato was. And then when we
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