Ornette Coleman
10) Skies of America
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Skies of America is a fully (though controversially) scored concerto grosso, comprised of, as Coleman wrote in liner notes for the original LP release, "melody, harmony, and the movement of forms. . .based on the four clefs bass, treble, tenor and alto. . .meaning to modulate in range without changing keys." Coleman's improvising jazz ensemble is nestled between and overlapping with orchestral passages, with the massive yet sometimes delicate atonal...
15) Invisible stream
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Imbert performs his own compositions, as well as music by Schubert, Wagner, and Ornette Coleman. With Jean-Guihen Queyras, Pierre-François Blanchard, and Sonny Troupé.