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   Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) [1] was an American jazz saxophonist, trumpeter, violinist, and composer. He is best known as a principal founder of the free jazz genre, a term derived from his 1960 album Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation. His pioneering works often abandoned the harmony -based composition ...

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3. www.nytimes.com › 2015/06/12 › artsOrnette Coleman, Saxophonist Who Rewrote the Language of Jazz ...

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   Jun 11, 2015 · Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman was born in Fort Worth on March 9, 1930, and lived in a house near railroad tracks. According to various sources, his father, Randolph, who died when Ornette was 7 ...

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4. www.britannica.com › biography › Ornette-ColemanOrnette Coleman | Biography, Albums, & Facts | Britannica

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   Jun 7, 2024 · Ornette Coleman (born March 9, 1930, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.—died June 11, 2015, New York, New York) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader who was the principal initiator and leading exponent of free jazz in the late 1950s. Coleman began playing alto, then tenor saxophone as a teenager and soon became a working musician ...

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6. www.nytimes.com › ornette-coleman-jazz-music5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Ornette Coleman

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   Nov 2, 2022 · By Marcus J. Moore. Nov. 2, 2022. Over the past three months, The New York Times has asked musicians, writers and scholars to share the favorites that would make a friend fall in love with jazz ...

7. www.udiscovermusic.com › stories › ornette-colemanOrnette Coleman Biography Explores The Free Jazz Saxophonist ...

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   Mar 17, 2020 · Learn how Ornette Coleman became a jazz innovator who changed the course of music with his unconventional style and ideas. Discover his life story, from his childhood in Texas to his collaborations with John Coltrane, Blue Note Records and more.

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8. www.theatlantic.com › entertainment › archiveOrnette Coleman, Still the Shape of Jazz to Come - The Atlantic

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   Jun 11, 2015 · Coleman also won some mainstream acclaim late in life. He earned single-name status, becoming known mostly as “Ornette,” even to non-jazz fans, and snagged a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement.

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   Who was Ornette Coleman?

   • Sam Falk/The New York Times Ornette Coleman, the alto saxophonist and composer who was one of the most powerful and contentious innovators in the history of jazz, died on Thursday in Manhattan. He was 85. The cause was cardiac arrest, a family representative said. Mr. Coleman widened the options in jazz and helped change its course.

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   Was Ornette Coleman a genius?

   • In ‘The Territory And The Adventure’, Maria Golia reveals how Ornette Coleman became “a genius” who changed “the entire course of jazz”. Jimmy Katz, reproduced by kind permission Ornette Coleman, born on 9 March 1930, was an alto saxophonist and composer who became one of the most powerful and contentious innovators in the history of jazz.

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   How did Ornette Coleman die?

   • Ornette Coleman performs during the North Sea Jazz Festival in 2010. Ornette Coleman, the American saxophonist and composer who liberated jazz from conventional harmony, tonality, structure and expectation, died early on Thursday of cardiac arrest in Manhattan. He was 85.

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   Who was Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman?

   • Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman was born in Fort Worth on March 9, 1930, and lived in a house near railroad tracks. According to various sources, his father, Randolph, who died when Ornette was 7, was a construction worker and a cook; his mother, Rosa, was a clerk in a funeral home. Both, he liked to say, were born on Christmas Day.

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10. www.npr.org › sections › ablogsupremeOrnette Coleman, Jazz Iconoclast, Dies At 85 - NPR

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    Jun 11, 2015 · Ornette Coleman, the American saxophonist and composer who liberated jazz from conventional harmony, tonality, structure and expectation, died early on Thursday of cardiac arrest in Manhattan.He ...