Read Robert Wyatt’s Eulogy For Ornette Coleman

After we lost the legendary free jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman to cardiac arrest last week, Soft Machine’s Robert Wyatt published an obituary commemorating the late musician in The Wire. Wyatt’s piece isn’t remorseful so much as celebratory; he looks back on the few moments that he met Coleman and reflects on the first time he […]

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