Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman was an American jazz saxophonist, trumpeter, violinist, and composer.
He is best known as a principal founder of the free jazz genre, a term derived from his 1960 album Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation. His pioneering works often abandoned the harmony-based…
7 roots·48 legacies
Roots trace the artists and scenes that shaped Ornette Coleman; legacies follow the artists carrying those ideas forward. The names below are the most-mentioned direct connections in the graph.
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Don Cherry, Art Blakey, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Dizzy Gillespie + 3 more
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6 releases·1992-2010
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