Ornette Coleman

Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s, a term he invented with the name of his 1961 album. His "Broadway Blues" has become a standard and has been cited as a key work in the free jazz movement. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1994. His album Sound Grammar received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for music.

Links To Peel
Peel mentioned on his March 2001 (FSK) show that he was not much of a jazz fan, but in his teenage years, he was into trad jazz, but modern jazz passed him by, except the work of one or two people including Ornette Coleman, who Captain Beefheart introduced him to his music. Peel also tried to get Ornette to do a session for his show on BBC Radio One and on his 25 April 2001 show, he mentioned unsuccessfully getting Ornette to do a session, as one of the Sessions That Never Happened:

" 'We tried to book Ornette Coleman in for a session but got tangled up in lawyers in New York or something...he wasn't here for very long...we wanted to get Sonny Rollins in while we were at it...we just ran into a wall of lawyers in New York City.'"

Shows Played

 * Ornette Coleman - Invisible
 * 01 April 1994: ‘Invisible (CD - Something Else!!!!)' (Contemporary)


 * 05 August 1994: Invisible (CD - Something Else!!!! ) Contemporary Records
 * 1999
 * 20 May 1999: Moon Inhabitants (LP: The Art Of The Improvisers) Atlantic
 * 2001
 * March 2001 (FSK): Moon Inhabitants (LP - The Art Of The Improvisers) Atlantic