Ornette Coleman
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Fort Worth TX, United States (1930 – present)
Coleman was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, where he began performing rhythm and blues and bebop initially on tenor saxophone. He later switched to alto, which has remained his primary instrument. Coleman’s timbre is perhaps one of the most easily recognized in jazz: his keening, crying sound draws heavily on blues music. Part of the uniqueness of his sound came from his use of a plastic saxophone on his classic early recordings (Coleman claimed that it sounded drier, without the pinging sound of metal), though in more recent years he has played a metal saxophone.
Ornette Coleman is most famous for his albums ‘The Shape of Jazz to Come’ (1959), ‘Free Jazz’ (1961), and ‘Skies of America’ (1972). In ‘The Shape of Jazz to Come’, he and his famous quartet, consisting of Don Cherry on trumpet, Charlie Haden on upright bass, and Billy Higgins on drums, play solos free of a chordal structure, due in part to the absence of the pianist or guitarist that were traditional to previous jazz groups. On ‘Free Jazz’ Ornette Coleman brings together his quartet from ‘The Shape of Jazz to Come’ and multi-instrumental reedist Eric Dolphy, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Ed Blackwell for a forty minute double-quartet recording.
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