June 11th 2015 was one of those momentous days in jazz history that can truly be said to signal the end of an era—it was the day Ornette Coleman died. It is a mark of his stature that, on the day in ...

Coleman's first LPs from the late 1950s are newly available. They showcase Coleman's sound before he began making the records with his own bands that made him a controversial jazz star. This is FRESH ...

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. You can play the alto saxophone in a ...

Alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman's masterpiece, Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation by the Ornette Coleman Double Quartet, is one of the hinges of jazz evolution. As a musical hinge, Free Jazz, ...

Few Americans know much about it, but a radical midcentury revolution in jazz was born in Los Angeles in the late 1950s. Some of the most exciting and challenging (and forgotten) American music was ...

Revolutionary composer Ornette Coleman died two years ago at age 85, his unorthodox ideas, liberated approach to collective improvisation and ear-worm melodies having forecast “the shape of jazz to ...

When last we saw Ornette Coleman at the San Francisco Jazz Festival, he stirred up the stuff of infamy. It was 1994, and Coleman’s “Tone Dialing” program presented a full menu of sets from both ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jazz legend Ornette Coleman, the visionary saxophonist who pioneered “free jazz” and won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007, has died. Publicist Ken Weinstein says Coleman died on Thursday at 1 ...

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The late, great Lou Reed called this one of his greatest moments, downtown NYC avant-garde overlord John Zorn skronked his head off on a record comprised of his compositions, he collaborated with both ...

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 ...

On September 24-26, 2010, Jimmy Katz, in co-production with The Jazz Gallery, will present an intimate jazz festival celebrating the music and life of Ornette Coleman. The event, aptly named ...