Ornette Coleman, jazz visionary, dead at 85, Saxophonist and arranger Ornette Coleman, a standout amongst the most incredible figures in jazz, passed on of a cardiovascular failure in Manhattan on Thursday morning, The New York Times reports. He was 85.
As one of the real pioneers of the free jazz development, Coleman helped grow the class in the 1950s and mid '60s, making it less secured by the tenets of concordance and mood.
He drove his first recording session for Contemporary, "Something Else!!!!: The Music of Ornette Coleman" in 1958 with trumpeter Don Cherry, drummer Billy Higgins, bassist Don Payne and musician Walter Norris.
Coleman marked with Atlantic Records in 1959 and discharged "The Shape of Jazz to Come" whose arrangement changed the class.
His collection "Sound Grammar" got the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for music.
More to come.
As one of the real pioneers of the free jazz development, Coleman helped grow the class in the 1950s and mid '60s, making it less secured by the tenets of concordance and mood.
He drove his first recording session for Contemporary, "Something Else!!!!: The Music of Ornette Coleman" in 1958 with trumpeter Don Cherry, drummer Billy Higgins, bassist Don Payne and musician Walter Norris.
Coleman marked with Atlantic Records in 1959 and discharged "The Shape of Jazz to Come" whose arrangement changed the class.
His collection "Sound Grammar" got the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for music.
More to come.
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