Wednesday, 1 February 2017

Review: 'Celebrate Ornette' Gives Avant-Jazz Legend an All-Star Farewell

On July 17th, 1967, the pioneering jazz saxophonist John Coltrane died of liver cancer. He was 40 years old. Four days later, the composer and saxophonist Ornette Coleman – who coined a movement with the title and audacity of his 1961 album Free Jazz – performed the closing hymn of Coltrane's

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