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Fact #157692

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Short story:

Yoko Ono, Ornette Coleman, David Izenzon, Charles Haden and Edward Blackwell play at The Royal Albert Hall, London, England, UK, Europe. BBC radio deejay John Peel attends the concert but later reports that he had difficulty connecting with the music.

Full article:

Yoko Ono : Ornette was already very, very established and famous and respected guy as a musician. And I met him in Paris. The way I met was, I was doing a show and after the show, somebody said, Oh, Ornette Coleman is here and he would like to - okay. Well, hello. Thank you for coming. That kind of thing. And he was saying, Well, okay. So he said that he was going to go and do a concert in Albert Hall and would I come and do it with him because he thought it was kind of interesting what I do.

So that was London, Albert Hall. And I felt that I just kind of said goodbye to London at the time, for many reasons. But mainly because I met John. It had a lot to do with that. And I thought, Okay. I'll go back and do that because it sounds very special. So I went back to London just to do that, in a way, and also to see my daughter, who's still in London.

Very complex situation, I don't want to go into that. And Ornette's band of musicians were very, very kind to me. And we did a few rehearsals and all that, too. And it was great. It was a great experience.
(Source : Yoko Ono interview in 1997)