08. Ornette Coleman The Attic - Composer's Corner

Ornette Coleman was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s, a term he invented with the name of an album released in '61.

Coleman was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (genius grant) in 1994. His album Sound Grammar received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for music.

Ornette Coleman has sadly passed away on June 5, 2015, at 85.