Jazz musician Ornette
Coleman, one of the most innovative musicians in modern jazz, has
died at the age of 85 in New York. His
1959 album The Shape of Jazz to Come is regarded by many as one of
the most influential jazz records.
His
publicist, Ken Weinstein, said the musician died on Thursday morning
after suffering a cardiac arrest. Coleman,
along with fellow saxophonist John Coltrane, was credited with
breaking down the traditional structures of jazz and creating a more
free-flowing form of expression.
Critics
branded his idea of improvising without chord changes as chaotic but
it eventually became mainstream in both jazz and rock. His
influence was recognised later in his life and he received both a
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a Pulitzer Prize for Music in
2007.
Born
in Fort Worth, Texas, on 9 March 1930, he once said he grew up "so
po" his family couldn't afford the "o" or the "r". He
bought a cheap alto saxophone at 14 and played in local rhythm and
blues bands before moving to Los Angeles.
A
year later, he moved to New York and was signed by Atlantic Records,
who released The Shape of Jazz to Come in 1959. Rolling Stone
magazine ranked the album at number 248 on its list of the 500
greatest albums.
Coleman
married poet Jayne Cortez in 1954 but they divorced 10 years later. He
is survived by their son, Denardo, a drummer and producer who began
performing with his father at age 10. (FraM Martins).
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