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Bookmark or Share- Ornette Coleman BiographyOrnette Coleman, the lightning rod. The most polarizing figure in the history of jazz. The alto saxophonist who outwitted segregation to hit the scene in 1959 and turn the music world on its head.
- Ornette Coleman, Still the Shape of Jazz to Come - The AtlanticOrnette Coleman, Still the Shape of Jazz to Come The saxophonist, composer, and free-jazz innovator, who has died at 85, remained one of the genre’s true polarizing geniuses right up to the end...
- Celebrate Ornette Home - Ornette ColemanOrnette Coleman, the lightning rod. The most polarizing figure in the history of jazz. The alto saxophonist who outwitted segregation to hit the scene in 1959 and turn the music world on its head. Bursting through bebop and inventing harmolodics, a sound flowing with the unpredictable rhythms of being.
- Ornette Coleman - National Endowment for the ArtsOrnette Coleman was one of the true jazz innovators, whose sound was instantly recognizable and unquestionably unique. Coleman's work ranged from dissonance and atonality to liberal use of electronic accompaniment in his ensembles, as well as the engagement of various ethnic influences and elements from around the globe.
- Ornette Coleman, Saxophonist Who Rewrote the Language of Jazz, Dies at ...Ornette Coleman, the alto saxophonist and composer who was one of the most powerful and contentious innovators in the history of jazz, died on Thursday in Manhattan. He was 85.
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