Ornette Coleman

- Name: Ornette Coleman
- Born: March 9, 1930
- Genre: Jazz, Free Jazz
- Origin: Fort Worth, Texas
- Active: 1958-Present
- Label: Atlantic Records, Verve Records
- Albums: 52
- 1969: Inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame
- 2007: Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music
- 2007: Suffered a stroke

Ornette Coleman is an American Jazz saxophonist, composer, and Free Jazz pioneer. In 2007, Coleman was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music.
Free Jazz

Ornette Coleman is an pioneer of avant-garde jazz. In 1960, he released an album called Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation which gave birth to the Free Jazz genre. Free Jazz is disposes of traditional fixed chord changes and tempos. Instead, musicians play off of the the mood of the pieces theme.
Notable Recordings
- 1958: Something Else!!!!
- 1959: The Shape of Jazz to Come
- 1959: Change of the Century
- 1960: This Is Our Music
- 1960: Free Jazz
- 1962: Town Hall
- 1972: Skies of America
- 2006: Sound Grammar

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- The Battle of the Five Spot, Ornette Coleman and the New York Jazz Field - $17.95
  
  The Battle of the Five Spot is an engaging look at a milestone in jazz history. In 1959, when the Texas-born saxophonist Ornette Coleman brought his quartet to New York's Five...
  
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- Free Jazz (A Collective Improvisation) - $13.96
  
  By 1961, when Free Jazz was released, alto saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman was infamous in the jazz world. His searing alto sax and full-ensemble take on melody wer...
  
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- The Shape Of Jazz To Come - $3.89
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- The Shape of Jazz to Come - $11.98
  
  On this highly influential 1959 album, Ornette Coleman's unique writing style and idiosyncratic solo language forever changed the jazz landscape. On classics such as "Lonely Woman,...
  
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- The Best Of Ornette Coleman: The Blue Note Years - $5.00
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- Do you think John Coleman should have been suspended for waving to President Obama? 1 Answer
  
  I think it was stupid that he was suspended for nodding and waving to President Obama (the way I see it he was acknowledging the President of the United States... read more
- What was the cause of the Continental Flight 3407 crash that killed Coleman Mellett and 49 others? 1 Answer
  
  The investigation continues and nothing is being ruled out, but the conditions sure sound like icing on the wings could have been the cause. When I lived in Ind... read more
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