Today in the world of glorious web discoveries, I saw on the OpenCulture twitter account a link to an interview between jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman and deconstructionist philosopher Jacques Derrida.

Ornette Coleman is someone who has been beaten for his beliefs. That didn't stop him though. He had to also face judgement from people he idolized. Read Ornette Coleman and Humanity: Parts 1 and 2 by ...

Ornette Coleman was always light years ahead of everyone else in terms of his ability to function as a constantly evolving nonconformist who took risks and created new spaces where art and ...

Coleman's first LPs from the late 1950s are newly available. They showcase Coleman's sound before he began making the records with his own bands that made him a controversial jazz star. This is FRESH ...

If you asked jazz firebrand Ornette Coleman about his music and philosophy, he probably would have referred you to an obscure music book, “The Harmolodic Theory.” First cited in his own liner notes to ...

(Reuters) - Some musicians found saxophonist Ornette Coleman, who died on Thursday at 85, to be a pioneer, but others were disdainful of his approach to jazz. Many of those detractors, however, such ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by A group of artists are reimagining the 1959 album “The Shape of Jazz to Come” for Bang on a Can’s Long Play festival. By Seth Colter Walls Bang on a ...

On July 17th, 1967, the pioneering jazz saxophonist John Coltrane died of liver cancer. He was 40 years old. Four days later, the composer and saxophonist Ornette Coleman – who coined a movement with ...

What happens after you set the world on fire? On six Blue Note LPs following landmark albums The Shape of Jazz to Come and Free Jazz, the mercurial saxophonist endeavored to find out. Conversely, the ...