Ornette Coleman

Ornette Coleman (born March 19, 1930) was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s, and one of the most notable figures in jazz history.

Legacy

Although now an elder statesman of jazz, Coleman continues to push himself into unusual playing situations, often with much younger musicians or musicians from radically different musical cultures, and continues to perform regularly. An increasing number of his compositions, while not ubiquitous, have become minor jazz standards, including "Lonely Woman", "Peace", "When Will The Blues Leave?", "The Blessing", and "Law Years", among others. He has influenced virtually every saxophonist of a modern disposition, and nearly every such jazz musician, of the generation which followed him.

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In 1988 John Zorn released Spy Vs Spy, an album consisting of radical reappraisals of Coleman songs.

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