Ornette Coleman won the Pulitzer Prize for music yesterday (April 16) for his 2006 album, "Sound Grammar," the first jazz work to be bestowed with the honor. By Billboard Staff Ornette Coleman won the ...

In the beginning of free jazz, there was Ornette Coleman. Actually, the alto saxophonist was the beginning of free jazz. His 1959 Atlantic recording The Shape of Jazz to Come followed on the heels of ...

Hopefully means “in a hopeful manner.” “I hope the boss lets us out early” and “Hopefully, the boss lets us out early” aren’t the same thing. On the other hand, these are grammar “rules” you can ...

Jazz legend Ornette Coleman plays the sax during a 2007 concert in Germany. (The Associated Press) Editor's note: In September 2006 The Oregonian's music critic Marty Hughley wrote the following ...

Ornette Coleman has long been a puzzle to casual jazz fans, his name as baffling as his music, which seems to go everywhere and nowhere. If jazz is the “sound of surprise,” as Whitney Balliett once ...

A small shock wave rippled through the jazz world two years ago when the saxophonist Ornette Coleman started performing regularly again after a long absence. His new group was an acoustic quartet, ...

It's been a decade since the last bounty of Ornette recordings. 1995-96 saw releases from his free-funk mélange Prime Time; a robust quartet with pianist Geri Allen and bassist Charnett Moffett; and ...