Ornette Coleman

Aidan Levy, author of ‘Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins,’ recommends the greatest live performances from the legendary saxophonist.

WBGO’s Lee Mergner chooses ten of his favorite jazz album covers, which set new standards for design and marketing.

Charles Lloyd — the multi-reedist, composer-bandleader, and NEA Jazz Master — has always been a rambler.To hear him tell it, Lloyd, 82, spent many…

Broken Shadows — the collective made up of saxophonists Tim Berne and Chris Speed, bassist Reid Anderson, and drummer David King — released a self-titled album in 2019. Here's a video outtake from their sessions.

No one needs to be reminded that 1959 was an exceptionally good year for jazz. Among other things, it gave us some of the most celebrated jazz albums ever…

We know it can be hard to shop for the jazz fan in your life. Especially in this day and age — when so much of our music arrives in digital form, or…

Jazz Middelheim is probably the oldest jazz event in Belgium, originally founded in 1969. It can also make a claim as one of the most adventurous with its…

Robert Palmer, the broadminded music critic, once pegged saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman succinctly: “He lives in a world of clear, endlessly…

It's always exciting when a new composition is unearthed from a behemoth in American art. In this case, it's a composition by Ornette Coleman, the…

The first of many startling reveals in Naked Lunch, the 1991 David Cronenberg film, occurs five seconds into the opening title sequence. An orchestra has…