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Mar 17, 2020 · 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. Fame must have seemed a long...
Nov 2, 2022 · This month, we focus on Ornette Coleman, the iconoclastic saxophonist and bandleader whose style prioritized atonal chords over traditional rhythm and harmony, which helped establish the...
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....
Ornette Coleman, the lightning rod. The most polarizing figure in the history of jazz. The alto saxophonist who outwitted segregation to hit the scene in 1959 and turn the music world on its head.
Nov 13, 2006 · Ornette Coleman. It's not easy living on the avant-garde edge of any art, let alone the always-changing world of jazz. But for nearly 50 years, the sound of Ornette Coleman has proven to be...
Dec 30, 2015 · June 11, 2015 • The American jazz saxophonist and composer who liberated jazz from conventional harmony, tonality, structure and expectation, died Thursday of cardiac arrest in Manhattan at age 85....
Long recognized as a transformational figure, Ornette Coleman remains one of the most enigmatic figures in American music. After starting out as an itinerant R&B saxophonist in the 1940s, Coleman presided over the avant-garde (or "free") jazz revolution on such albums as "The Shape of Jazz to Come," "Free Jazz" and "Ornette!"
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