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Ornette Coleman. 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 ...
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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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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Dec 23, 2015 · Coleman, Ornette (1930–2015). Jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman was born in Fort Worth, Texas, on March 19, 1930. He was the son of Randolph and Rosa Coleman, both apparently from Calvert, Texas. His father died when he was seven. Ornette, largely self-taught, began playing the saxophone when ...
Jun 12, 2015 · On Thursday morning in Manhattan, 85-year-old Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman, Jr. died of cardiac arrest. The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer was nominally referred to as a "jazz saxophonist," but with Coleman, terminology was useless, a mere prelude to a career who's breadth and significance was unquestionably titanic, contentious and pervasive.
Jun 11, 2015 · Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman was born March 9, 1930, in Fort Worth. He was a child when his father died, and his mother was a seamstress and domestic worker.
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May 29, 2020 · Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer. In the 1960s, he was one of the founders of free jazz, a term he invented for his album Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation.
