Jazz legend Ornette Coleman, the visionary saxophonist who pioneered "free jazz" and won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007, has died. Publicist Ken Weinstein says Coleman died on Thursday at 1 a.m. in ...

Welcome to the Texas Canon, a series that dives into the movies, TV shows, books, albums, and more that represent us and reach far beyond the Lone Star State’s borders. Today, we look at Texan Ornette ...

For ezz-thetics' revisited series' fourth Ornette Coleman album, the label has ventured back further than any of its previous Coleman albums, to New York City in December 1960 and January 1961.

Jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman has died at the age of 85. A representative of his family confirmed that he passed away in Manhattan today (June 11) after suffering a cardiac arrest. Coleman was a major ...

"If jazz is the 'sound of surprise,' then Ornette, at first hearing, is the sound of shock and awe." --Slate LOS ANGELES--The Ornette Coleman Quintet kicks off UCLA Live's 2007/08 Jazz series with the ...

While his name and visage may not be as immediately recognizable as those of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, jazz composer and saxophonist Ornette Coleman did as much (or perhaps even more) to push the ...

If you asked jazz firebrand Ornette Coleman about his music and philosophy, he probably would have referred you to an obscure music book, “The Harmolodic Theory.” First cited in his own liner notes to ...