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Biography:
One of the most important (and controversial) innovators of the jazz avant-garde, Ornette Coleman gained both loyal followers and lifelong detractors when he seemed to burst on the scene in 1959 fully formed. Although he, and Don Cherry in his original quartet, played opening and closing melodies together, their solos dispensed altogether ... Continue Bio >>

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Discography:
2011 1987 Hamburg Concert
2009 Lenox Jazz School Concert: August 29, 1959
2008 Live in Paris 1971
2006 Sound Grammar
1996 Sound Museum Three Women
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Filmography:
1999 Reed Royalty
1991 Naked Lunch
1985 Ornette Coleman: Ornette Made in America
1979 Saturday Night Live: Milton Berle
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Archie Shepp Charlie Haden Jimmy Lyons Marion Brown Roscoe Mitchell Grachan Moncur III Charles Brackeen World Saxophone Quartet Charlie Parker Thelonious Monk Fred Anderson Branford Marsalis Erik Friedlander Oliver Lake Return to Forever
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