Person
Ornette Coleman
Sound · 1930–2015 · Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Biography
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.
Known for
Saturday Night Live
Self - Musical Guest
Naked Lunch
Original Music Composer
All Magic Sands/Chappaqua
Original Music Composer
Detective
Music
Chappaqua
Peyote eater
Who's Crazy?
Music
Ornette Coleman Group - Berlin 1971
Themself
Ornette Coleman Quartet, Barcelona 1987
Themself
Population Explosion
Music
365 Day Project
Self
Filmography
- 2018Looking for OrnetteSelf
- 2018Ornette ColemanThemself
- 2014Charles Lloyd - Arrows Into InfinitySax
- 2013All Magic Sands/ChappaquaOriginal Music Composer
- 2012Sonny Rollins: Beyond the NotesSelf
- 2010The Sparrow and the TigressMusic
- 2007365 Day ProjectSelf
- 1995An Introduction to Harmolodics
- 1991Naked LunchOriginal Music Composer
- 1988Ornette Coleman and Prime Time & Pat Metheny: Live in MontrealSelf
- 1986Ornette: Made in AmericaSelf
- 1985DetectiveMusic
- 1984Ornette Coleman: A Jazz Video GameSelf
- 1975Saturday Night LiveSelf - Musical Guest
- 1969RepressionMusic
- 1968Population ExplosionMusic
- 1966ChappaquaPeyote eater
- 1965Who's Crazy?Music
- 1961CatalogMusic
- —Ornette Coleman Group - Berlin 1971Themself
- —Ornette Coleman & Prime Time - Live in Palalido 1980Themself
- —Ornette Coleman Quartet, Barcelona 1987Themself
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