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It's not often one can claim a musician to have redefined the jazz landscape, but that's exactly what saxophonist Dave Liebman said of the late Ornette Coleman (1930-2015), subject of a spontaneous ...

A three-night celebration of Ornette Coleman, produced by noted photographer Jimmy Katz, culminated with a scintillating performance by a new trio led by sax great Joe Lovano and featuring the stellar ...

The first sound you hear on “Celebrate Ornette” (Song X Records), a CD-and-DVD boxed set, comes from Ornette Coleman’s alto saxophone. All at once it conveys the frailty of old age; the sturdiness of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The life and times of jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman was celebrated Saturday, June 27, at New York's Riverside Church in a three-and-a-half hour service that featured remembrances and music. By ...