Ornette: Made in America Page #2

Synopsis: 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.
Director(s): Shirley Clarke
Production: Milestone Pictures
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
82
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
UNRATED
Year:
1985
85 min
45 Views


to answer that door,

or I'll lock you up.

Oh!

Junior!

Junior, where you going?

Outside.

No, you're not.

You're slaying here.

Thank you.

Brion was saying

this is almost the exact day

ten years later you were

together in Jajouka.

I'm gonna find that video I have

of Burroughs and you and I

in the tent.

Yeah, really,

a great event that occurred

in the mountains of Morocco.

We don't have any of the music

from Jajouka

to go on the soundtrack, do you?

Oh, yeah, oh, yeah.

How did you guys get together

at that point in time?

Well, Bob Palmer

had a good deal to do with it

because he'd played and been

up there several times.

Ornette, you know,

one thing I've always

wondered about-

You remember when I came back

when Gysin took me up to Jajouka

and I played with the musicians

up there

and I brought back those tapes,

and you listened to them.

And to my incredible surprise,

you said,

"Let's go, let's get

an organization together

and go up and make a record

with those guys. "

And we went and did it.

What did you hear in those tapes

that made you want to do that?

Well, I was telling

someone the other day

when I was in New Orleans,

I was playing

in a Sanctified Church,

and you know, in most churches

the pianos are so out of tune

that they be playing in the key

of Z... K... P... T...

I mean, H.

And I took my horn

in this Sanctified Church,

and I played the same way

I'm playing now.

When I heard those tapes,

I heard that same quality,

only on a much more high level

than religion.

It was more on a creative level.

Because most religion

is on an emotional level.

This was on a creative level,

and that's what really turned me on.

I said I got to go and play

with these guys,

because I could see

that for once

I would be able to play whatever

passed through my heart and head

without ever having to worry

about was it right or wrong.

We had something like

15 double reed horns

and 15 drummers,

and Ornette and me and hundreds

of hill tribesmen

all camped out in tents

around this little village

on the top of this mountain,

and the place was just shaking.

Bob was playing,

and I keep telling him,

and I have this tape,

where he started playing,

and all of a sudden

through some instinct

the whole sound of everything

that was going on

passed through his horn.

It was like intense flame.

I mean, his clarinet sounded

like it was just some kind

of bolt of fire.

I mean, it was

the most incredible sound

I ever heard any musician play,

including myself.

That would be

a pertinent question.

An impertinent question.

An impertinent question

works even better sometimes.

Can you think

of an impertinent question?

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