Ornette Coleman
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Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman was an American jazz saxophonist, trumpeter, violinist, and composer. He is best known as a principal founder of the free jazz genre, a term derived from his 1960 album
Coleman at the Enjoy Jazz Festival in Heidelberg, Germany, 2008
Coleman playing his signature alto saxophone in 1971
Coleman playing the trumpet at the Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, in 1981
Coleman playing the violin with Prime Time in 1978, flanked by guitarists Charlie Ellerbee (left) and Bern Nix (right)
Free jazz
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Free jazz is a style of avant-garde jazz or an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when musicians attempted to change or break down jazz conve
Ornette Coleman
…March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, trumpeter, violinist, and composer. He is best known as a principal founder of the free jazz genre, a term derived from his 1960 album Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation. His pioneering works often abandoned the harmony-based composition…
Pharoah Sanders in 2006
Coleman in 2009
Archie Shepp in 2008
Sun Ra in 1973