Lincoln Center Festival does Naked Lunch.
by Paul J. Pelkonen
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| Liquid courage: Peter Weller drinks up in Naked Lunch. Image Copyright 1991 201th Century Fox. |
Ornette Coleman carved his own path as a composer. As he burst upon the scene, he epitomized the atonal explorations of free jazz and then developing his own musical system of “harmolodics” to express himself with saxophone and pen. On Tuesday night, the Lincoln Center Festival kicked off its week-long Coleman tribute with a screening of Naked Lunch, the surreal, disturbing and very funny David Cronenberg film for which Coleman supplied part of the soundtrack.
