Many will no doubt mistake Ornette Coleman’s new Sound Grammar for a comeback—and with good reason. For starters, the guy who made it—the alto saxophonist who, in the ’50s, more or less invented free ...

Editor's note: In September 2006 The Oregonian's music critic Marty Hughley wrote the following review of "Sound Grammar," which was at the time Coleman's first album in about a decade and which later ...

Some music embeds itself into our minds so deeply that it seems to congeal in the memory from our first hearing. So it is with the four-note theme of A Love Supreme, which from the moment most of us ...

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, ...

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