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Ornette Coleman
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Ornette Coleman

Musician · born March 19, 1930 · died 2015

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Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman was an American jazz saxophonist, trumpeter, violinist, and composer. He is best known as a principal founder of the free jazz genre, a term derived from his 1960 album Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation.

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  1. ~37Named Guggenheim Fellowship1967
  2. ~64Named MacArthur Fellows Program1994
  3. ~71Named Praemium Imperiale2001
  4. ~77Received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award2007

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