Ornette Coleman\'s career encompassed the glory years of jazz and the American avant-garde.
At the luminous dawn of the Space Age and New York\'s 1960s counterculture, Coleman gave voice to the m.
Steeped in the Texas blues tradition, he and jazz grew up together, as the brassy blare of big band swing gave way to bebop--a faster music for a faster, postwar world.
Born in segregated Fort Worth, Texas, during the Great Depression, the African-American composer and musician was zeitgeist incarnate.
Ornette Coleman\'s career encompassed the glory years of jazz and the American avant-garde