For many an Ornette Coleman devotee, devotion was pledged with the singular saxophonist's The Shape of Jazz to Come (Atlantic). It was recorded in May and released in November of 1959, and it's a ...

Editor’s note: Jazz innovator Ornette Coleman passed away today at age 85. In remembrance, we’ve posted this list of Coleman’s five key albums, which originally ran in the December 13th, 2007 issue of ...

Read more in Slate about Ornette Coleman. During the course of a half-century, Ornette Coleman, who died Thursday, was the leader on 50 albums, and a sideman on 13. These are the top (or at least my ...

Few jazz musicians have been honored and reviled, celebrated and cursed more widely or more vigorously than Ornette Coleman, who died at 1 a.m. Thursday in Manhattan at age 85. An innovator to the ...

On May 22, 1959, just one month after Miles Davis had recorded his modal masterpiece (the best-selling jazz record of all time) and two weeks after Charles Mingus had recorded his landmark Mingus Ah ...

Ornette Coleman’s albums are getting a vinyl reissue. Ornette Coleman: the Atlantic Years includes Coleman’s six studio albums released on Atlantic from 1959 to 1961, as well as session outtakes. The ...

Coleman's first LPs from the late 1950s are newly available. They showcase Coleman's sound before he began making the records with his own bands that made him a controversial jazz star. This is FRESH ...

Jazz’s version of the famous—or infamous—1913 Armory show that introduced Americans to modern art came on November 17, 1959, when Ornette Coleman began a run of shows at the Five Spot Cafe in New York ...

In 1960, Roy DeCarava set his lens on Ornette Coleman, nothing new for the photographer, who had documented fellow African American artists like Norman Lewis, Paul Robeson, Langston Hughes, and ...