PERFORMANCE/TOUR: La Jazz

Ornette Coleman Royce Hall : Wed., November 3, 8:00pm Free jazz is what you might call it, or you could make reference to his own "harmolodic" as a way of describing what the giant, Ornette Coleman, hath wrought on the world of music in general and the shape of sounds to come. It's a big story—he'd tell you that himself, but you might have to pay him a million bucks. In short, since the late 1950s, when he sort of crept up on the New York jazz scene with his legendary engagement at the Five ...

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