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Celebrate the ornette with a list of five great albums spanning from 19592006. In the 1960s, he was one of the founders of free jazz, a term he invented for his album free jazz. At coltranes request, ornette colemanbacked by two bassists, charlie haden and david izenzon, and the drummer charles moffettclosed the ceremony by playing one number, a. Randolph denard ornette coleman was an american jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer. His broadway blues and lonely woman have become standards and are cited as important early works in free jazz.
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