For ezz-thetics' revisited series' fourth Ornette Coleman album, the label has ventured back further than any of its previous Coleman albums, to New York City in December 1960 and January 1961.

Ornette Coleman, the musical savant who freed jazz and every other art form that cared to dispense with stifling conventions and stultifying pretense, recorded Ornette at 12 and Crisis at the height ...

Originally released ten years ago on the fledgling Caravan Of Dreams label, this extraordinary set simultaneously illustrates two phases of Ornette Coleman’s brilliant career. Disc one is a reunion of ...

This record featured the great but rarely recorded lineup of trumpeter Don Cherry, drummer Ed Blackwell and bassist Charlie Haden. One of the world’s funkiest drummers, Blackwell was not afraid to ...

Ornette Coleman has been turning heads ever since the release of his landmark album, The Shape of Jazz to Come,in 1959. He followed that up with yet another definitive, genre-defining album a year ...

THE image on the screen is a village street in Nigeria. Brightly dressed people are clustered in a circle playing drums, giant calabashes, double-reed horns, and a sort of violin with horsehair ...

Ornette Coleman won the Pulitzer Prize for music yesterday (April 16) for his 2006 album, "Sound Grammar," the first jazz work to be bestowed with the honor. By Billboard Staff Ornette Coleman won the ...

Welcome to the Texas Canon, a series that dives into the movies, TV shows, books, albums, and more that represent us and reach far beyond the Lone Star State’s borders. Today, we look at Texan Ornette ...

A protégé of the saxophonist Ornette Coleman, he borrowed from and greatly influenced styles like funk, punk, jazz and the blues. By Clay Risen Listen to favorite songs by an adventurous musician who ...

As we reported yesterday, over the weekend, two jazz icons collaborated for what may well have been the first time, when Sonny Rollins was joined at his 80th birthday celebration by fellow ...