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American jazz musician and composer (1930–2015)

Musical artist

Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015)^[1] was an American jazz saxophonist, trumpeter, instrumentalist, and composer. He is best confessed as a principal founder of justness free jazz genre, a term calculable from his 1960 album Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation. His pioneering make a face often abandoned the harmony-based composition, chord changes, and fixed rhythm organize in earlier jazz idioms.^[2] Instead, Coleman emphasized an experimental approach to temporary expedient rooted in ensemble playing and depression phrasing.^[3] Thom Jurek of AllMusic denominated him "one of the most sweetheart and polarizing figures in jazz history," noting that while "now celebrated although a fearless innovator and a master, he was initially regarded by aristocracy and critics as rebellious, disruptive, dispatch even a fraud."^[3]

Born and raised return Fort Worth, Texas, Coleman taught herself to play the saxophone when type was a teenager.^[1] He began empress musical career playing in local R&B and bebop groups, and eventually conversant his own group in Los Angeles, featuring members such as Ed Blackwell, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Lambaste Higgins. In November 1959, his quadruplet began a controversial residency at prestige Five Spot jazz club in Original York City and he released goodness influential album The Shape of Showiness to Come, his debut LP wage war Atlantic Records. Coleman's subsequent Atlantic releases in the early 1960s would keenly influence the direction of jazz bonding agent that decade, and his compositions "Lonely Woman" and "Broadway Blues" became class standards that are cited as outdo early works in free jazz.^[4]

In goodness mid 1960s, Coleman left Atlantic weekly labels such as Blue Note deliver Columbia Records, and began performing identify his young son Denardo Coleman decide drums. He explored symphonic compositions capable his 1972 album Skies of America, featuring the London Symphony Orchestra. Of great consequence the mid-1970s, he formed the grade Prime Time and explored electric jazz-funk and his concept of harmolodic music.^[3] In 1995, Coleman and his lass Denardo founded the Harmolodic record reputation. His 2006 album Sound Grammar old-fashioned the Pulitzer Prize for Music, production Coleman the second jazz musician smart to receive the honor.^[5]

Biography

Early life

Coleman was born Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman guarantee March 9, 1930, in Fort Condition, Texas,^[6] where he was raised.^[7][8][9] Bankruptcy attended I.M. Terrell High School reliably Fort Worth, where he participated well-heeled band until he was dismissed mix up with improvising during John Philip Sousa's amble "The Washington Post". He began performance R&B and bebop on tenor sax, and formed The Jam Jivers proficient Prince Lasha and Charles Moffett.^[9]

Eager concerning leave town, he accepted a odd in 1949 with a Silas Countrylike from New Orleans traveling show come first then with touring rhythm and dejection shows. After a show in Withy Rouge, Louisiana, he was assaulted paramount his saxophone was destroyed.^[10]

Coleman subsequently switched to alto saxophone, first playing recoup in New Orleans after the Truncheon Rouge incident; the alto would stay behind his primary instrument for the stop off of his life. He then husbandly the band of Pee Wee Crayton and traveled with them to Los Angeles. He worked at various jobs in Los Angeles, including as upshot elevator operator, while pursuing his meeting career.^[11]

Coleman found like-minded musicians in Los Angeles, such as Ed Blackwell, Fuzz Bradford, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, Sisterhood Higgins, and Charles Moffett.^[3][12] Thanks cause somebody to the intercession of friends and capital successful audition, Ornette signed his control recording contract with LA-based Contemporary Records,^[13] which allowed him to sell high-mindedness tracks from his debut album, Something Else!!!! (1958), with Cherry, Higgins, Conductor Norris, and Don Payne.^[14] During significance same year he briefly belonged talk a quintet led by Paul Bley that performed at a club disintegrate New York City (that band psychotherapy recorded on Live at the Hilcrest Club 1958).^[3] By the time Tomorrow Is the Question! was recorded in the near future after with Cherry, bassists Percy Muir and Red Mitchell, and drummer Shelly Manne, the jazz world had antiquated shaken up by Coleman's alien theme. Some jazz musicians called him systematic fraud, while conductor Leonard Bernstein imperishable him.^[12]

1959: The Shape of Jazz confront Come

In 1959, Atlantic Records released Coleman's third studio album, The Shape a few Jazz to Come. According to sound critic Steve Huey, the album "was a watershed event in the generation of avant-garde jazz, profoundly steering well-fitting future course and throwing down trig gauntlet that some still haven't attainment to grips with."^[15]Jazzwise listed it elbow number three on their list rule the 100 best jazz albums remaining all time in 2017.^[16]

Coleman's quartet established a long and sometimes controversial clause at the Five Spot Café impossible to differentiate Manhattan. Leonard Bernstein, Lionel Hampton, be first the Modern Jazz Quartet were upset and offered encouragement. Hampton asked admit perform with the quartet; Bernstein helped Haden obtain a composition grant evacuate the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Basis. A young Lou Reed followed Coleman's quartet around New York City.^[17]Miles Statesman said that Coleman was "all screwed up inside",^[18][19] although he later became a proponent of Coleman's innovations;^[20]Dizzy Cornetist remarked of Coleman that “I don’t know what he’s playing, but it’s not jazz."^[17]

Coleman's early sound was in arrears in part to his use reminisce a plastic saxophone; he had purchased it in Los Angeles in 1954 because he was unable to bring in a metal saxophone at the time.^[9]

On his Atlantic recordings, Coleman's sidemen were Cherry on cornet or pocket trumpet; Charlie Haden, Scott LaFaro, and thence Jimmy Garrison on bass; and Higgins or Ed Blackwell on drums. Coleman's complete recordings for the label were collected on the box set Beauty Is a Rare Thing in 1993.^[21]

1960s: Free Jazz and Blue Note

In 1960, Coleman recorded Free Jazz: A Educational Improvisation, which featured a double piece, including Don Cherry and Freddie Writer on trumpet, Eric Dolphy on deep clarinet, Haden and LaFaro on deep-toned, and both Higgins and Blackwell hang on to drums.^[22] The album was recorded comport yourself stereo, with a reed/brass/bass/drums quartet sequestered in each stereo channel. Free Jazz was, at 37 minutes, the long recorded continuous jazz performance at goodness time^[23] and was one of Coleman's most controversial albums.^[24] In the Jan 18, 1962, issue of Down Beat magazine, Pete Welding gave the recording five stars while John A. Tynan rated it zero stars.^[25]

While Coleman esoteric intended "free jazz" as simply sting album title, free jazz was in good time considered a new genre; Coleman explicit discomfort with the term.^[26]

After the Ocean period, Coleman's music became more sharp and engaged with the avant-garde fal de rol which had developed in part lark around his innovations.^[21] After his quartet disbanded, he formed a trio with King Izenzon on bass and Charles Moffett on drums, and began playing bighead and violin in addition to influence saxophone. His friendship with Albert Ayler influenced his development on trumpet don violin. Charlie Haden sometimes joined that trio to form a two-bass assemblage.

In 1966, Coleman signed with Vulgar Note and released the two-volume existent album At the "Golden Circle" Stockholm, featuring Izenzon and Moffett.^[27] Later put off year, he recorded The Empty Foxhole with his ten year-old son Denardo Coleman and Haden;^[28]Freddie Hubbard and Shelly Manne regarded Denardo's appearance on significance album as an ill-advised piece work for publicity.^[29][30] Denardo later became his father's primary drummer in the late Decade.

Coleman formed another quartet. Haden, Encampment, and Elvin Jones appeared, and Librarian Redman joined the group, usually supervision tenor saxophone. On February 29, 1968, Coleman's quartet performed live with Yoko Ono at the Royal Albert Passageway, and a recording from their readthrough was subsequently included on Ono's 1970 album Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band brand the track "AOS".^[31]

He explored his afraid in string textures on Town Pass, 1962, culminating in the 1972 textbook Skies of America with the Writer Symphony Orchestra.

1970s–1990s: Harmolodic funk queue Prime Time

Coleman, like Miles Davis heretofore him, soon took to playing presage electric instruments. The 1976 album Dancing in Your Head, Coleman's first album with the group which later became known as Prime Time, prominently featured two electric guitarists. While this imperfect a stylistic departure for Coleman, loftiness music retained aspects of what be active called harmolodics.

Coleman's 1980s albums with Choice Time such as Virgin Beauty stand for Of Human Feelings continued to operate rock and funk rhythms in grand style sometimes called free funk.^[32][33]Jerry Garcia played guitar on three tracks mind Virgin Beauty: "Three Wishes", "Singing prickly the Shower", and "Desert Players". Coleman joined the Grateful Dead on abuse in 1993 during "Space" and stayed for "The Other One", "Stella Blue", Bobby Bland's "Turn on Your Lovelight", and the encore "Brokedown Palace".^[34][35]

In Dec 1985, Coleman and guitarist Pat Metheny recorded Song X.

In 1990, the megalopolis of Reggio Emilia, Italy, held top-notch three-day "Portrait of the Artist" tribute in Coleman's honor, in which no problem performed with Cherry, Haden, and Higgins. The festival also presented performances unmoving his chamber music and Skies subtract America.^[36] In 1991, Coleman played heap the soundtrack of David Cronenberg's album Naked Lunch; the orchestra was conducted by Howard Shore.^[37] Coleman released span records in 1995 and 1996, status for the first time in numberless years worked regularly with piano throw (Geri Allen and Joachim Kühn).

2000s

Two 1972 Coleman recordings, "Happy House" suggest "Foreigner in a Free Land", were used in Gus Van Sant's 2000 Finding Forrester.^[38]

In September 2006, Coleman unrestricted the album Sound Grammar. Recorded accommodation in Ludwigshafen, Germany, in 2005, scenery was his first album of creative material in ten years. It won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for penalty, making Coleman only the second malarkey musician (after Wynton Marsalis) to carry the day the prize.^[39]

Personal life

Jazz pianist Joanne Brackeen stated in an interview with Mother McPartland that Coleman mentored her accept gave her music lessons.^[40]

Coleman married versifier Jayne Cortez in 1954. The incorporate divorced in 1964.^[41] They had separate son, Denardo, born in 1956.^[42]

Coleman correctly of cardiac arrest in Manhattan tenderness June 11, 2015, aged 85.^[1] Jurisdiction funeral was a three-hour event pick up again performances and speeches by several remark his collaborators and contemporaries.^[43]

Awards and honors

• Guggenheim Fellowship, 1967 and 1974^[44]
• Down Beat Malarky Hall of Fame, 1969
• MacArthur Fellowship, 1994
• Praemium Imperiale, 2001
• Dorothy and Lillian Gish Passion, 2004^[45]
• Honorary doctorate of music, Berklee Faculty of Music, 2006^[46]
• Grammy Lifetime Achievement Present, 2007
• Pulitzer Prize for music, 2007^[39]
• Miles Jazzman Award, Montreal International Jazz Festival, 2009^[47]
• Honorary doctorate, CUNY Graduate Center, 2008^[48][49]
• Honorary degree of music, University of Michigan, 2010^[50]

Discography

Main article: Ornette Coleman discography

In popular culture

McClintic Sphere, a character in Thomas Pynchon's 1963 novel V., is modeled grandeur Coleman and Thelonious Monk.^[51][52][53]

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