Alyn Shipton selects the key recordings of influential saxophonist Ornette Coleman.
Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (born March 9, 1930, Fort Worth, Texas) is an American saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s.
Coleman's timbre is easily recognized: his keening, crying sound draws heavily on blues music. His album Sound Grammar received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for music.
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Poor Larry Ochs. There he was playing a set at the Sigüenza Jazz Festival with his...Alyn Shipton
Reviewed by Peter Marsh
The Harmolodic master's first release for some time; and it's a beauty.
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