Ornette Coleman
Sound · Music · Original Music Composer
Born Mar 9, 1930 · Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Active 1961–2015 · Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship, MacArthur Fellows Program, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Praemium Imperiale, Paul Acket Award, Pulitzer Prize for Music, honorary doctorate from Columbia University, Guggenheim Fellowship
Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s.
Filmography
Naked Lunch (1991) — Original Music ComposerPopulation Explosion (1968) — MusicAll Magic Sands/Chappaqua (2013) — Original Music ComposerDetective (1985) — MusicOrnette: Made in America (1986) — Original Music ComposerChappaqua (1966) — Peyote eaterCatalog (1961) — MusicWho's Crazy? (1965) — MusicCharles Lloyd - Arrows Into Infinity (2014) — SaxAn Introduction to Harmolodics (1995) — MusicOrnette Coleman (2018) — ThemselfOrnette Coleman Group - Berlin 1971 — ThemselfOrnette Coleman & Prime Time - Live in Palalido 1980 — ThemselfOrnette Coleman Quartet, Barcelona 1987 — ThemselfThe Sparrow and the Tigress (2010) — MusicRepression (1969) — Music