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- Saxophonist Ornette Coleman, who died Thursday, performing during the “Hommage to Nesuhi Ertegun” at the 40th Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland, in 2006.
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Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) [1] 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.
Ornette Coleman (born March 9, 1930, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.—died June 11, 2015, New York, New York) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader who was the principal initiator and leading exponent of free jazz in the late 1950s.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Taught Himself to Play The Saxophone
- Was An Outsider in The World of Jazz
- At A Glance …
- Fistfights occurred at Performances
- Formed Group Prime Time
- Became An Elder Statesman of Jazz
- Selected Discography
- Sources
Born on March 9, 1930, in Fort Worth, Texas, Coleman once saw his father in a baseball uniform but otherwise could remember little about him; he died when Coleman was seven years old. His mother made a living as a seamstress; although she was a strong disciplinarian, Coleman showed the classic marks of a free spirit from an early age. "One day a te...
Coleman signed on with a traveling carnival show band (he was later fired for trying to push the group's music in a more modern direction), kept playing rhythm and blues, and finally made his way to Los Angeles, where he was so poor that he reached the brink of starvation. His mother kept him going by sending him loaves of bread in the mail. Finall...
Born on March 9, 1930, in FortWorth, TX; married Jayne Cortez, 1954 (divorced 1964); children: Denardo. Education: Largely self-taught; studied music theory and history independently, Los Angeles, CA; attended School of Jazz, Lenox, MA, 1959. Career: Played in barroom rhythm-and-blues bands and with a traveling carnival show, mid-1940s and 1950s; p...
The results were controversial, even by the contentious standards of modern jazz culture. Coleman was alternately hailed as a genius (by New York Philharmonic conductor Leonard Bernstein, among others) and denounced as a fraud. Coleman seemed to shred tunes—when they were recognizable at all—with unpredictable melodic leaps, dissonant harmonies, sq...
That album was one of the first to feature an ensemble Coleman would employ for many years to come, the "double quartet" he called Prime Time. It consisted of paired guitars, bassists, and drummers, along with Coleman's own alto sax. The group, reported Scott Yanow on the Web site allmusic, "featured dense, noisy, and often witty ensembles in which...
The 1990s and 2000s saw the former jazz revolutionary turning into something of an elder statesman as he achieved senior citizen status. He continued to record, releasing several albums on his own Harmolodics imprint in the mid-1990s that found distribution from the large Verve label. In the early 2000s Coleman assembled a new group called Global E...
Something Else!,Contemporary, 1958. Tomorrow Is the Question!,Contemporary, 1959. The Art of the Improvisers,Atlantic, 1959. The Shape of Jazz to Come,Atlantic, 1959. Free Jazz,Atlantic, 1960. At the Golden Circle in Stockholm(Vol. 1 and Vol. 2), Blue Note, 1965. Science Fiction,Columbia, 1971. Skies of America,Columbia, 1972. Dancing in Your Head,...
Books
Gridley, Mark, Jazz Styles,5th ed., Prentice-Hall, 1994.
Periodicals
Boston Globe,March 4, 2007. Chicago Tribune,September 22, 2003. Down Beat,February 1994, p. 44; February 1996, p. 22; August 1998, p. 46; October 2000, p. 69. Entertainment Weekly,September 29, 2006, p. 78. International Herald Tribune,September 19, 2001. Jet,July 4, 1994, p. 36. Nation,July 10, 2000, p. 41. New York,August 27, 2006. New York Post,March 17, 2001, p. 8. New York Times,November 3, 1996; July 6, 1997; September 22, 2006; March 31, 2008. New Yorker,April 14, 2008, p. 78. People,O...
Online
Kahn, Ashley, "Ornette Coleman: Decades of Jazz on the Edge," Morning Edition, NPR, November 13, 2006, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6449431(accessed July 21, 2008). "Ornette Coleman," Europe Jazz Network, http://www.ejn.it/mus/coleman.htm (accessed July 21, 2008). "Ornette Coleman," Praemium Imperiale, http://www.praemiumimperiale.org/eg/laureates/cole_summary.html (accessed July 21, 2008). Ornette Coleman Official Web site, http://www.ornettecoleman.com/(accessed July...
Ornette Coleman “arrived in New York in 1959,” writes Philip Clark, “with a white plastic saxophone and a set of ideas about improvisation that would shake jazz to its big apple core.” Every big name in jazz was doing something similar at the time, inventing new styles and languages.
Jun 17, 2015 · Ornette Coleman, the Saxophonist Who Transformed Jazz. In 1960, Roy DeCarava set his lens on Ornette Coleman, nothing new for the photographer, who had documented fellow African American artists...
Jun 11, 2015 · Coleman's ongoing experiments took him to Northern Africa to work with the Master Musicians of Joujouka, and he performed with an electric ensemble he called Prime Time. He was a recipient of Guggenheim Fellowships for composition, a MacArthur grant, and the prestigious Gish Prize in 2004.
Jun 11, 2015 · Saxophonist Ornette Coleman, who died Thursday, performing during the “Hommage to Nesuhi Ertegun” at the 40th Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland, in 2006. (Martial Trezzini / EPA...
