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  • And the most unlikely of them all, "Pretend It's the End of the World," by saxophonist Bryan Murray, explores the conjunction of Merle Haggard and Ornette Coleman.

    Jazz Finds a Country Home Will Friedwald 2011

  • It could be dissected and juggled, as practised by Ornette Coleman, or it could turn up in the rock music of Frank Zappa or Steely Dan.

    A teenage Charlie Parker has a cymbal thrown at him 2011

  • Hagans explores the jagged recesses of Ornette Coleman's influence on his music with

    Ralph A. Miriello: Tim Hagans' The Moon Is Waiting Ralph A. Miriello 2011

  • "It's like playing an Ornette Coleman tune, where you have no changes and can just open up," he said.

    Jazz Finds a Country Home Will Friedwald 2011

  • As with other forms of jazz, the music heard in 16 years of weeklong Vision events can't be contained under a single verbal umbrella: Ornette Coleman called this music "free jazz" 50 years ago, but even he stopped using that phrase.

    A Last Weekend of Virtuosos and Visionaries Will Friedwald 2011

  • Hagans explores the jagged recesses of Ornette Coleman's influence on his music with

    Ralph A. Miriello: Tim Hagans' The Moon Is Waiting Ralph A. Miriello 2011

  • Hagans explores the jagged recesses of Ornette Coleman's influence on his music with

    Ralph A. Miriello: Tim Hagans' The Moon Is Waiting Ralph A. Miriello 2011

  • From there, the set was exemplary postmodern mischief and mayhem; like the best of Ornette Coleman , Ms. Scheinman starts with simple tunes and elaborates with improvisations that are translucently direct and easy to follow—a Bill Frisell-inspired sonic mold of bordertown folk-jazz.

    Making Musical Mischief Will Friedwald 2011

  • Hagans explores the jagged recesses of Ornette Coleman's influence on his music with

    Ralph A. Miriello: Tim Hagans' The Moon Is Waiting Ralph A. Miriello 2011

  • This 45-acre estate, once a Catskills resort and now a dance-and-theater academy, was the third and final home of Creative Music Studio, founded in 1971 by Mr. Berger; his wife, Ingrid Sertso; and saxophonist Ornette Coleman.

    Preserving an Upstate Jazz Incubator Larry Blumenfeld 2011

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