Ornette Coleman (Forth Worth, Texas, 1930) was the late fifties one of the most important innovators in jazz. Initially he played tenor and alto saxophone in rhythm & blues bands in the southern United States There he was always looking for a different approach to melody and chord progression, something that was not always appreciated him for. In 1958, has moved to Los Angeles, but he got the chance
… to record an album. That was Something Else! where the jazz world first became acquainted with his special improvisational style:. a combination of new and old with a firm grounding in the blues, but not limited to chord, tonality or regular phone with the album Free Jazz 1960 his style was also a name. The audience was now more accustomed to the genre and Coleman got more gigs. Along with fixed companion Don Cherry he made several European tours. Coleman has also trumpet and violin play. In the late seventies, he focused on (free) with the funk band Prime Time. Coleman wrote a book about the underlying theory of his free approach, entitled Harmolodics that by virtually no one understood. (HB)more