Ornette Coleman, avant-garde jazz pioneer, RIP

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Saxophonist Ornette Coleman, whose avant-garde jazz compositions birthed the free jazz movement of the 1960s and beyond, has died. He was 85.


“I don’t want (musicians I play with) to follow me,” he once said. “I want them to follow themselves, but to be with me.”


(New York Times)


Below, Ornette Coleman Sextet, "Free Jazz," live in Germany, 1978: