Update (May 28, 2015): System Dialing Records has issued a response denying Ornette Coleman's allegations: "New Vocabulary is a collaborative, joint work by professional musicians Jordan Mclean, Amir ...

This week's staff song pick comes from News & Notes producer Roy Hurst. His choice is Ornette Coleman's "Only Once," a piece Hurst describes as an emotional and challenging composition. Time now for ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies in for Terry Gross. The great jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman is now 80 and rarely makes records anymore. His last album, "Sound Grammar," won the Pulitzer Prize ...

The first time I saw Ornette Coleman live was in my hometown of Syracuse in the summer of 1986; the next month I moved West to begin my studies at CalArts with Charlie Haden and the other fine faculty ...

Jazz innovator Ornette Coleman died of a heart attack in New York yesterday. He was 85. Born in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1930, Coleman started out playing rhythm and blues. His progressive approach made ...

During Ornette Coleman’s legendary 1959 run of shows at the Five Spot club in New York, there was a joke going around: “A waiter drops a trayload of drinks and a man says to his lady-friend, ‘Listen ...

“Ornette’s work is so profoundly tied to the notion of liberty,” Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid says, reflecting on the life, music and legacy of the saxophonist Ornette Coleman, who died on June ...

June 11th 2015 was one of those momentous days in jazz history that can truly be said to signal the end of an era—it was the day Ornette Coleman died. It is a mark of his stature that, on the day in ...

He has been called a charlatan and a genius, a musical illiterate and a fearless visionary, a destroyer of noble traditions and a builder of enthralling new idioms. He has been skewered by listeners ...

(CN) – Two musicians bootlegged live private recordings of jazz great Ornette Coleman and continue to offer the illicit materials for sale, the bandleader and his son say in a federal lawsuit.

The jazz world lost one of its most visionary artists Thursday when Ornette Coleman died in New York City, the New York Times reports. Coleman was 85. According to the Times, the cause was cardiac ...

Jazz saxophonist Coleman, who is almost 85, rarely makes records any more. In New Vocabulary, he joins up trumpet and drums — and peppers his solos with his signature catchy and earthy pet phrases.