Ornette Coleman

Ornette Coleman, saxophonist and composer born in Fort Worth in 1930, author of The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959) and Free Jazz (1961) and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2007 with Sound Grammar.

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Origin
Fort Worth, United States
Current status
Died on 11 June 2015

Discography

Year Release
1958 Something Else!!!!
1959 Tomorrow Is the Question!
1959 The Shape of Jazz to Come
1960 Change of the Century
1961 This Is Our Music
1961 Free Jazz
1962 Ornette!
1962 Ornette on Tenor
1965 Town Hall, 1962Live
1966 The Empty Foxhole
1968 New York Is Now!
1968 Love Call
1972 Science Fiction
1972 Skies of America
1977 Dancing in Your Head
1982 Of Human Feelings
1986 Song X
1987 In All Languages
1988 Virgin Beauty
1995 Tone Dialing
1996 Sound Museum: Hidden Man
1996 Sound Museum: Three Women
2006 Sound GrammarLive

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