Later that week (I was there for the Kool Jazz Festival, which say Ornette and Miles Davis come out of multi-year retirements to play there), I heard Ornette's quartet with Jamaladeed Takumah on bass, and Denardo Coleman
Every jazz musician, it seems, has an Ornette Coleman story. Here are some of them.
Coleman is regularly cited as one of jazz music's most influential figures and his 1959 album 'The Shape Of Jazz To Come' helped birth the start of the genre's more experimental side. In 1960 he released 'Free Jazz', which gave this new style of music
Legendary jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman died earlier today in New York City at 85, according to The New York Times. The cause was cardiac arrest, a representative of the family said. The alto saxophonist and composer
The New York Times reports that the alto saxophone great and free jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman died this morning in Manhattan after suffering from cardiac arrest. Coleman was 85, and we will not see his like again.