What is Ornette Coleman?
{{Infobox musical artist | Name = Ornette Coleman | Img = Ornette Coleman.jpg | Img_capt = Ornette Coleman plays his alto saxophone at [[The Hague]], 1994 | Img_size = <!-- Only for images narrower than 220 pixels --> | Landscape = | Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | Birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1930|3|9}} | birth_place = [[Fort Worth]], [[Texas]], [[United States]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2015|6|11|1930|3|9}} | death_place = [[New York City]], United States | Instrument = [[alto saxophone]]<br>[[tenor saxophone]]<br>[[violin]]<br>[[trumpet]] | Genre = [[Jazz]] | Occupation = musician, composer | Years_active = 1958-present | Label = | Associated_acts = | URL = [http://www.ornettecoleman.com/ ornettecoleman.com] | Current_members = | Past_members = | Notable_instruments = }} '''Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman''' (March 9, 1930<ref name=ALLMUSIC>[http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p65603 allmusic Biography]</ref> &ndash; June 11, 2015) was an [[Americans|American]] [[jazz]] musician. He plays the [[saxophone]], [[violin]] and [[trumpet]]. He is also a [[composer]]. He was one of the people that helped make a new jazz style called [[free jazz]], in the 1960s. Coleman's music is also like [[blues music]]. His album ''[[Sound Grammar]]'' won the 2007 [[Pulitzer Prize]] for music. ==Early career== Coleman was born in [[Fort Worth, Texas]]. He began playing [[Rhythm and blues|R&B]] and [[bebop]] music, at first on the tenor [[saxophone]]. He wanted to leave his home town so he got a job in 1949 with a traveling show. Then he played with touring R&B shows. In [[Baton Rouge]], he was attacked and his saxophone was destroyed.<ref>{{cite book|title=Four Lives in the Bebop Business|author=Spellman, A. B.|date=1966|publisher=Limelight|isbn=0-87910-042-7|pages=98–101}}</ref> After that he changed