Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (født 9. marts 1930 i Texas, død 11 juni 2015 i New York) var en amerikansk jazz-saxofonist, komponist og orkesterleder.
Han havde svært ved at slå igennem, mange musikere opfattede ham nærmest som respektløs, uskolet eller slet og ret primitiv. I 1958 blev nogle etablerede jazzmusikere, bl.a. John Lewis, dog opmærksomme på hans spil.
Hans højst personlige sange udgør effektive affyringsramper for musikernes improvisationer.
Han fremtrådte også som trompetist og violinist med forskellige besætninger på koncerter og plader i USA og Europa.
I 1975 dannede han et elektrisk ensemble, Prime Time, og har senere spillet på festivaler og koncerter med bl.a. sin søn, trommeslageren Denardo Coleman født i 1956.
Hæder Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame, 1969 MacArthur Fellowship, 1994 Praemium Imperiale, 2001 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, 2004The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize , official website. Honorary doctorate of music, Berklee College of Music, 2006 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007 Pulitzer Prize for music, 2007 Miles Davis Award, Montreal International Jazz Festival, 2009Montreal Jazz Festival official page Æresdoktor ved Graduate Center, CUNY, 2008 Honorary doctorate of music, University of Michigan, 2010
Diskografi
Som bandleder Studiealbums 1958: Something Else!!!! (Contemporary, 1958) 1959: Tomorrow Is the Question! (Contemporary, 1959) 1959: The Shape of Jazz to Come (Atlantic, 1959) 1959: Change of the Century (Atlantic, 1960) 1961: This Is Our Music (Atlantic, 1961) 1960: Free Jazz (Atlantic, 1961) 1961: Ornette! (Atlantic, 1962) 1961: Ornette on Tenor (Atlantic, 1962) 1965: Chappaqua Suite (Columbia, 1966) 1966: The Empty Foxhole (Blue Note, 1966) 1968: New York Is Now! (Blue Note, 1968) 1968: Love Call (Blue Note, 1971) 1971: Science Fiction (Columbia, 1972) 1972: Skies of America (Columbia, 1972) 1973-75: Dancing in Your Head (A&M, 1977) 1977: Soapsuds, Soapsuds (Artists House, 1977) 1976: Body Meta (Artists House, 1978) 1979: Of Human Feelings (Antilles, 1982) 1985: Song X (Geffen, 1986) 1987: In All Languages (Caravan of Dreams, 1987) 1988: Virgin Beauty (Portrait, 1988) 1992: Naked Lunch with Howard Shore, The London Philharmonic Orchestra (Milan, 1992) – soundtrack 1995: Tone Dialing (Harmolodic/Verve, 1995) 1996: Sound Museum: Hidden Man (Harmolodic/Verve, 1996) 1996: Sound Museum: Three Women (Harmolodic/Verve, 1996)
Livealbums Town Hall, 1962 (ESP Disk, 1965) – rec. 1962 At the "Golden Circle", Vol. 1 & 2 (Blue Note, 1966) – rec. 1965 An Evening with Ornette Coleman (Polydor International, 1967) – rec. 1965 The Music of Ornette Coleman - Forms & Sounds (RCA Victor, 1967) Ornette at 12 (Impulse!, 1968) Friends and Neighbors: Live at Prince Street (Flying Dutchman, 1972) – rec. 1970 Crisis (Impulse!, 1972) – rec. 1969 Opening the Caravan of Dreams (Caravan of Dreams, 1985) Prime Design/Time Design (Caravan of Dreams, 1985) Jazzbühne Berlin '88 (Repertoire, 1990) – rec. 1988 The Belgrade Concert (Jazz Door, 1995) – rec. 1971 Colors: Live from Leipzig (Harmolodic/Verve, 1997) – rec. 1996 The Love Revolution (Gambit, 2005) – rec. 1968; music previously issued on Live In Milano 1968 and The Unprecedented Music of Ornette Coleman Sound Grammar (Sound Grammar, 2006) – rec. 2005 Live in Paris 1971 (Jazz Row, 2007) – rec. 1971 New Vocabulary (System Dialing, 2014) - rec. 2009
Opsamlingsalbum The Art of the Improvisers (Atlantic, 1970) – rec.1959-61 Twins (Atlantic, 1971) – rec.1961 To Whom Who Keeps a Record (Atlantic, 1975) – rec.1959-60 Who's Crazy? Vol. 1 & 2 (Atmosphere, 1979) – rec.1966 Broken Shadows (Columbia, 1982) – rec.1971 Beauty Is a Rare Thing (Rhino/Atlantic, 1995) The Complete Science Fiction Sessions (Columbia, 2000) The Ornette Coleman Legacy (Atlantic, 2018) – rec.1960-61
Som medvirkende Med Paul Bley 1958: Live at the Hilcrest Club 1958 (Inner City, 1976) 1958: Coleman Classics Volume 1 (Improvising Artists, 1977)
Med Charlie Haden 1976: Closeness (Horizon, 1976) 1976: The Golden Number (A&M, 1977)
Med Jamaaladeen Tacuma 1983–84: Renaissance Man (Gramavision, 1984) 2010: For the Love of Ornette (Jazzwerkstatt, 2010)
Med andre Geri Allen, Eyes in the Back of Your Head (Blue Note, 1997) Louis Armstrong, Louis Armstrong and His Friends (Flying Dutchman/Amsterdam, 1970) Joe Henry, Scar (Mammoth, 2001) Jackie McLean, New and Old Gospel (Blue Note, 1968) – rec. 1967 Yoko Ono, Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band on the track "AOS" (Apple, 1970) Lou Reed, The Raven (RCA, 2003) Gunther Schuller, Jazz Abstractions (Atlantic, 1960) Bob Thiele, Head Start (Flying Dutchman, 1967) James Blood Ulmer, Tales of Captain Black (Artists House, 1978) Sonny Rollins, Road Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy, 2011)
Se også Free jazz
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