Ornette Coleman
Born: March 9, 1930
Died: June 11, 2015 (aged 85)
Bio: Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s, a term he invented with the name of an album.
Known for:
- The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959)
- Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (1961)
- Dancing in Your Head (1977)
- Change of the Century (1960)
- At the Golden Circle Stockholm (1965)
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