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]
The AllMusic review awarded the album 1½ stars.[4]
Syd Fablo of RockSalted stated that he sees the album as "being in service of an agenda completely independent of genre categories like jazz/classical," and commented: "it is indeed remarkable how Ornette manages to create some of the same 'sourness' of tone that he achieves in his alto saxophone playing through written notation for a string quartet. And yet there is a grim, determined hopefulness to the music."[5]
Track listing
All compositions by Ornette Coleman
"Prime Design/Time Design Part 1"
"Prime Design/Time Design Part 2"
Recorded at the Caravan of Dreams in Fort Worth, Texas in 1985 by Ron St.Germain & David Hewitt on the Record Plant NY Black Truck.
