08. Ornette Coleman
- Author
- The Attic
- Published
- Mon 22 Jun 2015
- Episode Link
- http://the-attic.net/podcasts/composerscorner/08-Ornette_Coleman.mp3
Ornette Coleman was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s, a term he invented with the name of an album released in '61.
Coleman was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (genius grant) in 1994. His album Sound Grammar received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for music.
Ornette Coleman has sadly passed away on June 5, 2015, at 85.
