Alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman's masterpiece, Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation by the Ornette Coleman Double Quartet, is one of the hinges of jazz evolution. As a musical hinge, Free Jazz, ...

This is Our Music is the militantly expressed jumping-off point for alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman on the way to the epochal Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (Atlantic, 1961). Coleman picks up ...

Ornette Coleman established himself as the leader of the free jazz movement. Be-bop was the raw-sounding alternative to big band, and hard bop the rawer-sounding alternative to be-bop. Coleman took it ...

Ornette Coleman, the American saxophonist and composer who liberated jazz from conventional harmony, tonality, structure and expectation, died early on Thursday of cardiac arrest in Manhattan. He was ...

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 ...

Applying lessons from Ornette Coleman to popular music, Ulmer was a true original ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ornette Coleman, Still the Shape of Jazz to Come Jazz’s version of the famous—or infamous—1913 Armory show that introduced ...

Few jazz musicians have been honored and reviled, celebrated and cursed more widely or more vigorously than Ornette Coleman, who died at 1 a.m. Thursday in Manhattan at age 85. An innovator to the ...

During Ornette Coleman’s legendary 1959 run of shows at the Five Spot club in New York, there was a joke going around: “A waiter drops a trayload of drinks and a man says to his lady-friend, ‘Listen ...

In the original album liner notes, critic Martin Williams, a consistent champion of Coleman, called it “exceptional in so many ways that it is hard to know where to begin!” In an essay within a 1998 ...

This week's staff song pick comes from News & Notes producer Roy Hurst. His choice is Ornette Coleman's "Only Once," a piece Hurst describes as an emotional and challenging composition. Time now for ...