Welcome to the Texas Canon, a series that dives into the movies, TV shows, books, albums, and more that represent us and reach far beyond the Lone Star State’s borders. Today, we look at Texan Ornette ...

In the continuously evolving history of artistic expression, certain movements emerge that challenge the very foundations of our aesthetic sensibilities. In the early and mid-20th century, ...

NEW YORK -- Jazz legend Ornette Coleman, the visionary saxophonist who pioneered "free jazz" and won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007, has died. Publicist Ken Weinstein says Coleman died on Thursday at 1 a.m.

Jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman has died at the age of 85. A representative of his family confirmed that he passed away in Manhattan today (June 11) after suffering a cardiac arrest. What to Read Next ...

ALL Hell broke loose when the alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman made his East Coast nightclub debut, at the Five Spot Cafe, in Greenwich Village on November 17, 1959--twenty-five years ago last fall.

As the ezz-thetics label has already released two of Ornette Coleman's Blue Note albums together on New York Is Now & Love Call Revisited, both recorded in April and May 1968, it was always in the ...

This is FRESH AIR. There's a new reissue of jazz giant Ornette Coleman's first LPs from the late 1950s, just before he began making the records with his own bands that made him a controversial jazz ...

Listen to favorite songs by an adventurous musician who pushed the boundaries of jazz, selected by writers and musicians including Nailah Hunter, Kieran Hebden and the artist’s son Eagle-Eye Cherry.

"The King of Limbs" is Radiohead's free jazz album. Like revolutionaries Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Charles Mingus, who railed against the staid conventions of jazz in the 1950s and '60s, Thom ...