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A painting the saxophonist saw on his lunch break inspired his most famous composition — which in turn may have planted the seed for the Velvet Underground
Tom Surgal's film puts the focus on a movement marginalized in Ken Burns' 2001 'Jazz' series
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Our take on epic box set memorializing late saxophonist-composer Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman broke all the rules and inspired musicians from Coltrane to Sonic Youth
Living Colour guitarist remembers the jazz legend who helped inspire so many artists outside his genre
Pioneering alto saxophonist and innovator in avant-garde jazz died of cardiac arrest
Denardo Coleman claims that 2014's 'New Vocabulary' was released without permission by Amir Ziv and Antibalas' Jordan McLean
Fifty 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
It is a lot easier to lose yourself in the roaring joy of Ornette Coleman's music […]
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