Pulitzer Prize-winning saxophonist Ornette Coleman was a towering influence on
modern jazz playing and became one of the pioneers of the so-called free jazz
movement in the 1960s. His unorthodox approach to playing with its unusual
approach to chord progressions and harmony didn't always find an appreciative
audience and in his early years his radical approach was often misunderstood by
his less enlightened peers.
Regarded as an iconoclast by some and a genius by others, one of his defining
albums was his 1960 release 'Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation'. The album
had a ...