June 11th 2015 was one of those momentous days in jazz history that can truly be said to signal the end of an era—it was the day Ornette Coleman died. It is a mark of his stature that, on the day in ...

In 1960, Roy DeCarava set his lens on Ornette Coleman, nothing new for the photographer, who had documented fellow African American artists like Norman Lewis, Paul Robeson, Langston Hughes, and ...

Coleman's first LPs from the late 1950s are newly available. They showcase Coleman's sound before he began making the records with his own bands that made him a controversial jazz star. This is FRESH ...