Ornette Coleman was born on March 9, 1930, in Fort Worth, Texas. He began playing music as a teenager and eventually became a working musician. In the 1950s, Coleman developed a style of improvising called “free jazz.” The non-harmonic style was controversial, but he successfully recorded albums like Free Jazz and The Shape of Jazz to Come. In 2007, he received a Pulitzer Prize for his music. In June 2015, at the age of 85, Coleman died of cardiac arrest.
Miles Dewey Davis III
Trumpet
May 26, 1926
September 28, 1991
The Juilliard School
Alton, Illinois
Santa Monica, California
"LONELYWOMAN" BY ORNETTE COLEMAN