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Why was Ornette Coleman so important? Jazz masters both living and dead chime in

3581 days ago
L.A. Times - News more info

Why was Ornette Coleman so important? Jazz masters both living and dead chime in

3581 days ago
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

Jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman dies at 85

3581 days ago
ReutersNEW 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

Ornette Coleman: the godfather of free jazz

3581 days ago
The TelegraphIvan Hewett pays tribute to the most intellectual of jazz musicians more info

Ornette Coleman, jazz innovator and disruptor, dies at 85

3581 days ago
L.A. Times - News more info

What Was New About Ornette Coleman’s Sound

3581 days ago
TimeWhat TIME wrote in 1960 about the innovative artist more info

Ornette Coleman, jazz musician, dies aged 85

3581 days ago
The TelegraphThe alto saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman, a controversial jazz innovator, dies in New York more info

Jazz Icon Ornette Coleman Dies At 85

3581 days ago
TimeThe experimental musician was the first to win a Pulitzer Prize for a recording more info

R.I.P. Ornette Coleman

3581 days ago
StereogumThe New York Times reports that the alto saxophone great and free jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman died this morning in Manhattan after suffering from cardiac arrest. Coleman was 85, and we will not see his like again. Coleman came from Fort Worth, Texas... more info

Ornette Coleman, RIP

3581 days ago
Brooklyn VeganThe alto saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman, one of the most powerful and contentious innovators in the history of jazz, died on Thursday morning in Manhattan. He was 85. The cause was cardiac arrest, a representative of the family said.... more info

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