Ornette Coleman worked in music at a period when the art was changing shape around them.
The record lists Ornette Coleman as American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer (1930–2015).
Ornette Coleman was born at Fort Worth in 1930. His recorded nationality is United States. He trained at I.M. Terrell High School.
Broadcast radio, the LP and the touring circuit made this the first era in which a musician could reach a mass audience without ever meeting it.
He worked as composer, trumpeter and saxophonist.
The instruments recorded are saxophone, jazz violin and alto saxophone.
His work is classed as jazz.
He performed with American Academy of Arts and Letters and The Ornette Coleman Quartet.
A musical reputation rests on a handful of works that refuse to date.
The honours record reads: Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2007) and Pulitzer Prize for Music (2007).
That the work came out of United States shaped it: musical traditions, training institutions and the reach of a recording industry all differ by country.
Ornette Coleman died in 2015, aged 85. The recordings and scores remain, which is the only durable form a musical life takes.
Achievements
- Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award — 2007
- Pulitzer Prize for Music — 2007
- Instruments: saxophone, jazz violin and alto saxophone
- Genres: jazz
