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She was married to jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman from 1954 to 1964, and their son is jazz drummer Denardo Coleman. In 1975, Cortez married painter, sculptor, and printmaker Melvin Edwards, and they lived in Dakar, Senegal, and New York City. Biography.
In 1959, she married the jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman. They had a son, Denardo, born in 1956, who later became a jazz drummer and joined his mother’s band, The Firespitters. Coleman and Cortez divorced in 1964.
In 1954, at the age of 18, Cortez married the rising jazz star Ornette Coleman. The two had a son, Denardo Coleman, two years later. In the 1960s Cortez embarked on several endeavors, including participating in the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi, traveling to Europe and Africa, and organizing writing workshops in Watts, California.
Jan 4, 2013 · Ms. Cortez’s marriage to Mr. Coleman ended in divorce in 1964, after 10 years. Besides her son, she is survived by her second husband, Melvin Edwards, a prominent sculptor whom she married in...
CORTEZ, Jayne 1936-PERSONAL: Born May 10, 1936, in Fort Huachuca, AZ; married Ornette Coleman (a jazz musician), 1954 (divorced, 1964); married Melvin Edwards (a sculptor), 1975; children: (first marriage) Denardo Coleman.
May 14, 2018 · In 1954 she married Ornette Coleman, who would become one of the great jazz musicians of the later twentieth century. In the early 1960s the couple traveled to Mississippi to take part in the Civil Rights movement and later to Europe and Africa.
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In 1975, Cortez married sculptor Melvin Edwards, who has illus-trated all of her books. Following the Thirty-Year Retrospective (1963-1993) given his work at the Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York at Purchase, he published Fragments: Sculp-ture and Drawings from the "Lynch Fragment" Series, photographs and
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