This article is about the album. For telecommunications signaling, see Dual-tone multi-frequency signaling.
1995 studio album by Ornette Coleman
Tone Dialing
Studio album by
Ornette Coleman
Released
September 26, 1995
Recorded
1995
Genre
Jazz
Length
66:01
Label
Harmolodic/Verve
Producer
Denardo Coleman
Ornette Coleman chronology
Virgin Beauty (1988)
Tone Dialing (1995)
Colors: Live from Leipzig (1996)
Tone Dialing is an album recorded in 1995 by the American jazz composer and saxophonist Ornette Coleman and his Prime Time ensemble. It was released in September 1995 by Coleman's Harmolodic record label, in partnership with Verve/PolyGram.[1][2] It was the Harmolodic label's first release, and "the first disc fully devoted to Coleman's music in eight years."[2]
Regarding the album title, Coleman, in an interview, commented: "Information comes to people in the form of tone dialing. When you speak of something you speak in the tone of what it means to you. Sending a fax is tone dialing. When someone reads something you wrote, that's tone dialing... These songs were written so that the musicians would be able to express their views about the information they were using."[3]
In a separate interview, Coleman stated: "When you hear the guitar, the bass, and everyone else play what is called their tone dialing sounds, they are not so much playing different notes as they are playing their own tones, a form of the notes they have been given in the clef that they read. Basically, what you are doing in harmolodics is relying on the basic information that goes into composing, playing, and improvising on forms... Your information may be limited, but the way you use the information doesn't have to be limited. Your tone will cause you to change any note to the way you hear it. Your relationship to your tone is based on your emotions. If it wasn't, everybody would sound the same. When you play something and you hear you own tone, that's tone dialing. That's you. If you create music just from the concept of your own tone, you will be doing something no one else has discovered."[4]
^"Ornette Coleman discography". Jazz Discography Project. Retrieved November 28, 2011.
^ abMacnie, Jim (September 16, 1995). "Harmolodic Label Is Pure Coleman". Billboard. BPI Communications: 1, 84. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved August 10, 2012.
^Zwerin, Mike (September 29, 1995). "Musical Tone Dialing With Ornette Coleman". New York Times. Retrieved February 19, 2022.
^Shoemaker, Bill (July 2006). "Dialing Up Ornette". Point of Departure. Retrieved February 19, 2022.
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switch off-hook to complete the dialing when the subscriber presses a button. Invented by engineer August Kruckow, the dialtone was first used in 1908 in Hildesheim...
in the form of tonedialing. When you speak of something you speak in the tone of what it means to you. Sending a fax is tonedialing. When someone reads...
main difference being the absence of tonedialing and signaling, particularly in the 1950s and 1960s. The tone system in the United States has been almost...
to international dialing at low or zero cost by some other means, make a dialed call to a country that was available via direct dialing, and then use the...
hearing range of 20–20,000 Hz Call-progress tones, such as dialtone and ringing tone Pulse dialing and dual-tone multi-frequency signaling (DTMF) BORSCHT...
method the often used name loop disconnect dialing. In the most common variant of pulse dialing, decadic dialing, each of the ten Arabic numerals are encoded...
arrangement with Verve/PolyGram. The label released its first album, Coleman's ToneDialing, in September 1995. Harmolodic went on to release new albums by Coleman...
sometimes that an invalid code has been dialed. A PBX also often indicates an invalid extension, while dialing an invalid telephone number on the PSTN...
older 10 key Touch Tone phone, or by dialing the number and the # key to instantly connect the call on a modern 12 key Touch Tone phone. Most mobile phones...
available at this time. Consequently, the dialing process was executed by the user lifting the handset, dialing, then placing the handset on the coupler...
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rotating tonedialer based on optical technology.[citation needed] The Western Electric model 1500 telephone adapted the 500 design for touch-tonedialing with...
It could be used to dial a telephone number by holding the device to the mouthpiece of a tonedialing telephone. The tonedialing feature was integrated...
telephone or similar telecommunication device for dialing a telephone number. It was standardized when the dual-tone multi-frequency signaling (DTMF) system was...
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2009, Ukraine switched to the dialing conventions common in the European Union. In order to call abroad, users need to dial 00 before the country code....
pound/hash (#) dialed on a telephone keypad or rotary dial to access certain telephone service features. Some vertical service codes require dialing of a telephone...
1963, the Bell System introduced touchtone dialing, and Western Electric began production of a touch-tone model, with 10 numerical keys, lacking today's...
on-hook sensor on the phone). Hear a stutter dialtone (a series of beeps followed by another dialtone). Dial the second number and greet the second party...
These tables list the dialing codes (area codes) for calling land lines for various cities and districts in Japan, when dialing from within Japan. The...
it interprets that as an instruction to dial the numbers 5551212 on the telephone, using touch-tonedialing. During a command mode operation, the modem...
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