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He lives and breathes music, as he told me when we sat down to discuss his pick, Ornette Coleman.
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Finally, I think the world is coming to Ornette Coleman, so to speak.
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In 1957, Ornette Coleman seemed to burst on the New York jazz scene.
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In fact, they thought Ornette Coleman was playing nonsense at first, and then they started to listen a little closer.
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Even now, the vast majority of the musicians come from the classical community, with exceptions including Stephen Sondheim and Ornette Coleman.
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The one thing that you should understand is that, you know, you can say there's music before Ornette Coleman and there's music after Ornette Coleman.
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What's clear today is that Ornette Coleman has his own thing.
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The score, by Howard Shore, features sax solos by Ornette Coleman.
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Johnson and saxophonist Ornette Coleman composed for symphony orchestras.
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First of all, it's difficult to describe Ornette Coleman.
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That's the way I look at Ornette Coleman.
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Here's my conversation with Ornette Coleman.
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And what Ornette Coleman did for legions of musicians who came after him was free them up of the idea that they had to follow chord structure, and so you got a lot of guys who were just, you know, a lot of people thought were playing nonsense.
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