Ornette Coleman

Saxophonist Ornette Coleman infused his symphony 'Skies of America' with portents and patriotism. It's the perfect soundtrack to Juneteenth, as Shaun Brady explains in his review for WRTI's Album of the Week.

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.

April is Jazz Appreciation Month, and WRTI is celebrating throughout the month with music that showcases one of the most magical and innovative years of…

Photographer John Rogers befriended the saxophonist and composer about 10 years ago. Then he started bringing other musicians to jam at Coleman's house.

The American jazz saxophonist and composer who liberated jazz from conventional harmony, tonality, structure and expectation, died Thursday of cardiac arrest in Manhattan at age 85.

WRTI's J. Michael Harrison recently moderated a very special panel that explored music known as "The New Thing" - from the free jazz movement of the 1950s…

An Ornette Coleman documentary restored, plus the freewheeling Tim Berne and Herbie's Mwandishi.