As the master of free jazz, Ornette Coleman's career spans more than five decades. Over that time, he has created a musical world of his own. He talks to Farai Chideya about his unique perspective on ...

Update (May 28, 2015): System Dialing Records has issued a response denying Ornette Coleman's allegations: "New Vocabulary is a collaborative, joint work by professional musicians Jordan Mclean, Amir ...

The first time I saw Ornette Coleman live was in my hometown of Syracuse in the summer of 1986; the next month I moved West to begin my studies at CalArts with Charlie Haden and the other fine faculty ...

Coleman's first LPs from the late 1950s are newly available. They showcase Coleman's sound before he began making the records with his own bands that made him a controversial jazz star. This is FRESH ...

Jazz innovator Ornette Coleman died of a heart attack in New York yesterday. He was 85. Born in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1930, Coleman started out playing rhythm and blues. His progressive approach made ...

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, ...

A protégé of the saxophonist Ornette Coleman, he borrowed from and greatly influenced styles like funk, punk, jazz and the blues. By Clay Risen Listen to favorite songs by an adventurous musician who ...

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 ...

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 ...

June 11th 2015 was one of those momentous days in jazz history that can truly be said to signal the end of an era—it was the day Ornette Coleman died. It is a mark of his stature that, on the day in ...

The appearance of Ornette Coleman, who has died aged 85, at the Barbican in London in 2001, with a supporting cast of rappers, dancers, video artists, sufi vocalists, opera singers and Chinese ...