New Doc ‘Fire Music’ Sets the Record Straight on Free Jazz
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Tom Surgal's film puts the focus on a movement marginalized in Ken Burns' 2001 'Jazz' series
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50 Best Albums of 2017
Posted in: Music ListsTaylor Swift clapped back, Kendrick Lamar got personal, Lorde threw a high-concept party and more
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Review: ‘Celebrate Ornette’ Gives Avant-Jazz Legend an All-Star Farewell
Posted in: Album ReviewsOur take on epic box set memorializing late saxophonist-composer Ornette Coleman
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Ornette Coleman: The Man Who Set Jazz Free
Posted in: Music NewsOrnette Coleman broke all the rules and inspired musicians from Coltrane to Sonic Youth
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Vernon Reid on Ornette Coleman: ‘He Set a Lot of People Free’
Posted in: Music FeaturesLiving Colour guitarist remembers the jazz legend who helped inspire so many artists outside his genre
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Ornette Coleman, Jazz Legend, Dead at 85
Posted in: Music NewsPioneering alto saxophonist and innovator in avant-garde jazz died of cardiac arrest
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Ornette Coleman’s Guardian Files Lawsuit Over Alleged Unauthorized Album
Posted in: Music NewsDenardo Coleman claims that 2014's 'New Vocabulary' was released without permission by Amir Ziv and Antibalas' Jordan McLean
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Ornette Coleman: The Outsider
Posted in: Music NewsFifty years ago, the saxophonist staked out a radical new future for jazz. Miles Davis thought he was crazy, Jerry Garcia worshipped him — and half a century later, America still hasn't caught up
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Tone Dialing
Posted in: Album ReviewsIt is a lot easier to lose yourself in the roaring joy of Ornette Coleman's music […]
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Ornette Coleman’s Time
Posted in: Music NewsWith a little help from the Grateful Dead, jazz's eternal iconoclast is finding a new audience
