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

The Telegraph — The alto saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman, a controversial jazz innovator, dies in New York more info

Time — The experimental musician was the first to win a Pulitzer Prize for a recording more info

Stereogum — The 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

Brooklyn Vegan — The 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

Mercury News, California — Here's the full transcript of our conversation with master saxophonist Charles Lloyd. The 'Showcase Artist' at this year's Monterey Jazz Festival, he spoke with us for 90 minutes about his remarkable 60 years in music -- growing up in Memphis, retrea... more info