| Prime Design/Time Design | ||||
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| Released | 1985 | |||
| Recorded | 1985 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Caravan of Dreams | |||
| Producer | Kathelin Hoffman | |||
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Prime Design/Time Design is a live album written by the American jazz composer Ornette Coleman and recorded by a string quartet, with Ornette's son Denardo Coleman on drums, at the Caravan of Dreams in 1985 and released on the Caravan of Dreams label.[1] The composition is dedicated to Coleman's "best hero," Buckminster Fuller, and is an interpretation of Fuller's "vision of the birth of the universe, the fusion of chaos and harmony".[2]
Excerpts from the performance of Prime Design/Time Design appeared in Shirley Clarke's 1985 film Ornette: Made in America.[3]
- ^ Ornette Coleman discography accessed November 26, 2011
- ^ Golia, Maria (2020). Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure. Reaktion Books.
- ^ Chinen, Nate (August 30, 2012). "Freewheeling Musician Gets Free-Form Tribute". New York Times. Retrieved July 26, 2022.