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Bookmark or Share- Ornette Coleman Biography - Ornette ColemanOrnette 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.
- Ornette Coleman - WikipediaRandolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) 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.
- About - Ornette ColemanAbout - Ornette Coleman. Celebrate Ornette is a tribute to the legendary Ornette Coleman, shot at his final concert in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, June 2014; and at his Memorial Service one year later at Manhattan’s The Riverside Church.
- Ornette Coleman, Saxophonist Who Rewrote the Language of Jazz, Dies at ...June 11, 2015. 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....
- Celebrate Ornette Home - Ornette ColemanOrnette 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. Bursting through bebop and inventing harmolodics, a sound flowing with the unpredictable rhythms of being.
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