L.A. Times - Entertainment — "We'd like to play a piece for Ornette Coleman," Jason Moran told the Playboy Jazz Festival crowd late Saturday afternoon. more info

Core News — “Joining the musical dots – soul, hip-hop, Afro, Latin, electronica, jazz and beyond. We have words & brand new music from Bilal & an Ornette Coleman tribute.” Check out other Gilles Peterson shows here and subscribe to the feed to get good mus... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — RIP Ornette Coleman, the sayer of the unsayable, an artist who devoted his life to pursuing pure sound. We’ll never see the likes of him again. Germany, 1978. Ornette Coleman – sax, violin; Ben Nix – guitar; James Blood Ulmer – guitar; Fred W... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Ornette Coleman, an alto saxophonist whose spontaneous approach to jazz improvisation and imaginative compositions stamped him as one of the most innovative and controversial figures of the post-bebop era, has died. He was 85. more info

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L.A. Times - Entertainment — ¿I listened to him all kinds of ways. I listed to him high, I listened to him stone cold sober. I even played with him. I think he¿s jiving, baby.¿ -- Roy Eldridge to Esquire magazine, 1961 more info

Reuters — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ornette Coleman, a self-taught alto saxophone player who polarized the jazz world with his unconventional "free jazz" before coming to be regarded as an avant garde genius, died on Thursday morning in New York at the age of 85, a... more info

The Telegraph — Ivan Hewett pays tribute to the most intellectual of jazz musicians more info

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Time — What TIME wrote in 1960 about the innovative artist more info