Attended the San Francisco Jazz Festival this evening - a performance of the Ornette Coleman Quartet at Davies Symphony Hall.

The quartet was quite unorthodox, featuring dual bassists (Albert McDowell on acoustic upright, and Anthony Falanga on electric), drums (Ornette's son Denardo Coleman), and Ornette on alto saxophone, trumpet and violin.

Attendance was near capacity for music that has probably seldom (if ever) been performed on American radio or television.

The music was well received, with exuberant audience applause that garnered three encores.
This evening's performance was the 50-year-anniversary of Ornette's original quartet's premiere at New York City's Village Vanguard in 1959.