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 ...

Vinyl sets are becoming really expensive but this one celebrating two Ornette Coleman classics is going to sell out very quickly. Craft Recordings had a really strong 2021 with a long list of ...

Few jazz musicians have been honored and reviled, celebrated and cursed more widely or more vigorously than Ornette Coleman, who died at 1 a.m. Thursday in Manhattan at age 85. An innovator to the ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: Jazz innovator Ornette Coleman passed away today at age 85. In remembrance, we’ve posted this list of Coleman’s five key albums, which originally ran in the December 13th, 2007 issue of ...

Ornette Coleman’s albums are getting a vinyl reissue. Ornette Coleman: the Atlantic Years includes Coleman’s six studio albums released on Atlantic from 1959 to 1961, as well as session outtakes. The ...

On May 22, 1959, just one month after Miles Davis had recorded his modal masterpiece (the best-selling jazz record of all time) and two weeks after Charles Mingus had recorded his landmark Mingus Ah ...