How to piss off Jazz fans.

ornette Coleman's playing has always pissed people off as acadie was kicked out of his high school band for improvising during a March early in his career a show in Baton Rouge offended some audience members so much that they assaulted him backstage and destroyed his saxophone and when he broke into the New York Jazz scene in the 1950s his reception was contentious to say the least the Jazz establishment were shook by Coleman's music Miles Davis even called Coleman all screwed up inside if you want to understand why Coleman inspired such a response you need only to listen to his music take eventually the second track on the shape of jazz to come when you listen to the song you start to get a sense of the radical musical ideas that confounded New York's Jazz scene [Music] laughs

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Published: Wed May 03 2023