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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...
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.
Jun 11, 2015 · Ornette Coleman, Still the Shape of Jazz to Come. The saxophonist, composer, and free-jazz innovator, who has died at 85, remained one of the genre’s true polarizing geniuses right up to the...
Jun 11, 2015 · Thu 11 Jun 2015 10.03 EDT. Ornette Coleman, one of the most influential and innovative figures in jazz history, has died at the age of 85, the New York Times reports. He suffered a cardiac...
Jun 11, 2015 · Ornette Coleman, one of the most innovative musicians in modern jazz, has died at the age of 85 in New York. A saxophonist born in Texas, Coleman began his career in the 1950s and later...
Jun 11, 2015 · Jazz revolutionary and saxophone innovator has died at the age of 85. Here’s his life in pictures, from early recording sessions to the Ornette Coleman Quartet rehearsals and his tribute on the...
