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ID: 500352903 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500352903			Record Type: Person

Coleman, Ornette (American musician and composer, 1930-2015)

Note: Alto saxophonist and composer helped change the course of jazz in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and is considered the father of "free jazz." He won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for his album "Sound Grammar."

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Names:
	Coleman, Ornette (preferred,U,index,LC O)
	Ornette Coleman (U,display)
	Coleman, Randolph Denard Ornette (V BN)

Nationalities:
	American (preferred)

Roles:
	musician (preferred)
	composer (music)

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Fort Worth (Tarrant county, Texas, United States) (inhabited place) Died: New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

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Coleman, Ornette (I,U)

Biographies:


	(American musician and composer, 1930-2015) ..... [VP Preferred] (artist) ..... [GRI Special Collections] (artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]

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Sources and Contributors:

Coleman, Ornette ........	[GRISC Preferred, VP]
..................................	GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 2006M8
..................................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
..................................	Ratliff, Ornette Coleman, New York Times (2015) obit.

Coleman, Randolph Denard Ornette ........	[VP]
................................................................	Ratliff, Ornette Coleman, New York Times (2015) obit.

Ornette Coleman ........	[GRISC, VP]
................................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
................................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)

Subject: ........	[GRISC, VP]
....................	GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-)
....................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)


Note:
English	..........	[VP]
	..........	Ratliff, Ornette Coleman, New York Times (2015)

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