PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Ornette Coleman, Starring as Himself

Jazz at Lincoln Center opened its fall season on Saturday night with a repertory tribute to Ornette Coleman. Not that this sold-out concert, at the Rose Theater, was presented that way: there was no organized script, no resident orchestra, no Wynton Marsalis. The idea, instead, was that Mr. Coleman — the famously inscrutable alto saxophonist, composer and free-jazz pioneer — would make his Jazz at Lincoln Center debut on his own bold terms. He did just that, superbly, but in a way ...

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