Ornette Coleman

By John Litweiler

Book Overview

Ornette Coleman is one of the great architects of jazz. Like Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker, he changed the way we listen. His soaring, cascading, note-rich free improvisations added a new vocabulary to the alto saxophone; and his harmolodic compositions, shattering Western harmonic and rhythmic conventions, gave jazz a new musical language.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306805804
• ISBN13: 9780306805806
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.3"