Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 - June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxoph… Read Full Bio ↴Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 - June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer. He was one of the founders and major innovators of the 1960s free jazz movement and one of the most notable figures in jazz history.
Coleman was born in 1930 in Fort Worth, Texas where he participated in his high school band until being dismissed for improvising during "The Washington Post" march. He began performing rhythm and blues and bebop, initially on tenor saxophone. He later switched to alto, which has remained his primary instrument. Coleman's timbre is perhaps one of the most easily recognized in jazz; his keening, crying sound draws heavily on the blues. Part of the uniqueness of his sound came from his use of a plastic saxophone on his classic early recordings (Coleman claimed that it sounded drier, without the pinging sound of metal), though in more recent years he has played a metal saxophone.
Coleman is most famous for his albums The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959), Free Jazz (1961), and Skies of America (1972). In The Shape of Jazz to Come, he and his famous quartet, consisting of Don Cherry on trumpet, Charlie Haden on upright bass, and Billy Higgins on drums, play solos free of a chordal structure, due in part to the absence of the pianist or guitarist that had been traditional in jazz. On Free Jazz, Coleman brings together his quartet from the previous album, together with multi-instrumental reedist Eric Dolphy, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, bassist Scott LaFaro, and drummer Ed Blackwell for a forty-minute double-quartet recording. This recording was perhaps his most controversial because it featured dense instrumentation with only brief and dissonant moments of composition, allowing for horn players to chime in to accompany the soloist, and because it contributed the name "Free Jazz" to the avant-garde jazz movements of the 1960s. Skies of America is Coleman's first symphony, recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra. Coleman can be heard playing on this recording, beginning with the movement "The Artist in America".
In the 70s, Coleman, like Miles Davis before him, took to playing with electrified instruments. The 1976 jazz-funk album Dancing in Your Head, Coleman's first recording with the group which later became known as Prime Time, prominently featured electric guitars. While this marked a stylistic departure for Coleman, the music maintained certain similarities to his earlier work. These performances had the same angular melodies and simultaneous group improvisations – what Joe Zawinul referred to as "nobody solos, everybody solos" and what Coleman called 'harmolodics' – and although the nature of the pulse was altered, Coleman's rhythmic approach did not. Harmolodics encompassed the central musical approach of Coleman's later period, and he has explained it variously in depth, particularly in an interview with the WIRE magazine 257, July 2005 issue.
In the 1980s, albums like Virgin Beauty and Of Human Feelings continued to use rock and funk rhythms, sometimes called free funk. Jerry Garcia played guitar on three tracks from Coleman's 1988 album Virgin Beauty: "Three Wishes", "Singing in the Shower", and "Desert Players". Coleman joined the Grateful Dead on stage once in 1993 during "Space", and stayed for "The Other One", "Stella Blue", Bobby Bland's "Turn on Your Lovelight", and the encore "Brokedown Palace". Another collaboration was with guitarist Pat Metheny, with whom Coleman recorded Song X (1985); though released under Metheny's name, Coleman was essentially a co-leader, having contributed to all the compositions.
In 1991, Coleman played on the soundtrack for David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch; the orchestra was conducted by Howard Shore. It is notable among other things for including a rare sighting of Coleman playing a jazz standard: Thelonious Monk's blues line "Misterioso". The mid-1990s saw a flurry of activity from Ornette: he released four records in 1995 and 1996, and for the first time in many years worked regularly with piano players (either Geri Allen or Joachim Kühn).
In September 2006 a live album titled Sound Grammar with his newest quartet (Denardo drumming and two bassists, Gregory Cohen and Tony Falanga) was released. This was Coleman's first album of new material in ten years, and was recorded in Germany in 2005. It eventually won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for music, making Coleman only the second jazz artist to win the prize.
Coleman continued to push himself into unusual playing situations, often with much younger musicians or musicians from radically different musical cultures. An increasing number of his compositions, while not ubiquitous, have become minor jazz standards, including "Lonely Woman", "Peace", "Turnaround", "When Will the Blues Leave?", "The Blessing", "Law Years", "What Reason Could I Give" and "I've Waited All My Life". He has influenced virtually every saxophonist of a modern disposition, and nearly every such jazz musician, of the generation that followed him. His songs have proven endlessly malleable: pianists such as Paul Bley and Paul Plimley have managed to turn them to their purposes; John Zorn recorded Spy vs Spy (1989), an album of extremely loud, fast, and abrupt versions of Coleman songs. Finnish jazz singer Carola covered Coleman's "Lonely Woman" and there have even been progressive bluegrass versions of Coleman tunes (by Richard Greene).
Ornette Coleman died of a cardiac arrest at the age of 85 in New York City on June 11, 2015. His funeral was a three-hour event with performances and speeches by several of his collaborators and contemporaries.
Coleman was born in 1930 in Fort Worth, Texas where he participated in his high school band until being dismissed for improvising during "The Washington Post" march. He began performing rhythm and blues and bebop, initially on tenor saxophone. He later switched to alto, which has remained his primary instrument. Coleman's timbre is perhaps one of the most easily recognized in jazz; his keening, crying sound draws heavily on the blues. Part of the uniqueness of his sound came from his use of a plastic saxophone on his classic early recordings (Coleman claimed that it sounded drier, without the pinging sound of metal), though in more recent years he has played a metal saxophone.
Coleman is most famous for his albums The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959), Free Jazz (1961), and Skies of America (1972). In The Shape of Jazz to Come, he and his famous quartet, consisting of Don Cherry on trumpet, Charlie Haden on upright bass, and Billy Higgins on drums, play solos free of a chordal structure, due in part to the absence of the pianist or guitarist that had been traditional in jazz. On Free Jazz, Coleman brings together his quartet from the previous album, together with multi-instrumental reedist Eric Dolphy, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, bassist Scott LaFaro, and drummer Ed Blackwell for a forty-minute double-quartet recording. This recording was perhaps his most controversial because it featured dense instrumentation with only brief and dissonant moments of composition, allowing for horn players to chime in to accompany the soloist, and because it contributed the name "Free Jazz" to the avant-garde jazz movements of the 1960s. Skies of America is Coleman's first symphony, recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra. Coleman can be heard playing on this recording, beginning with the movement "The Artist in America".
In the 70s, Coleman, like Miles Davis before him, took to playing with electrified instruments. The 1976 jazz-funk album Dancing in Your Head, Coleman's first recording with the group which later became known as Prime Time, prominently featured electric guitars. While this marked a stylistic departure for Coleman, the music maintained certain similarities to his earlier work. These performances had the same angular melodies and simultaneous group improvisations – what Joe Zawinul referred to as "nobody solos, everybody solos" and what Coleman called 'harmolodics' – and although the nature of the pulse was altered, Coleman's rhythmic approach did not. Harmolodics encompassed the central musical approach of Coleman's later period, and he has explained it variously in depth, particularly in an interview with the WIRE magazine 257, July 2005 issue.
In the 1980s, albums like Virgin Beauty and Of Human Feelings continued to use rock and funk rhythms, sometimes called free funk. Jerry Garcia played guitar on three tracks from Coleman's 1988 album Virgin Beauty: "Three Wishes", "Singing in the Shower", and "Desert Players". Coleman joined the Grateful Dead on stage once in 1993 during "Space", and stayed for "The Other One", "Stella Blue", Bobby Bland's "Turn on Your Lovelight", and the encore "Brokedown Palace". Another collaboration was with guitarist Pat Metheny, with whom Coleman recorded Song X (1985); though released under Metheny's name, Coleman was essentially a co-leader, having contributed to all the compositions.
In 1991, Coleman played on the soundtrack for David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch; the orchestra was conducted by Howard Shore. It is notable among other things for including a rare sighting of Coleman playing a jazz standard: Thelonious Monk's blues line "Misterioso". The mid-1990s saw a flurry of activity from Ornette: he released four records in 1995 and 1996, and for the first time in many years worked regularly with piano players (either Geri Allen or Joachim Kühn).
In September 2006 a live album titled Sound Grammar with his newest quartet (Denardo drumming and two bassists, Gregory Cohen and Tony Falanga) was released. This was Coleman's first album of new material in ten years, and was recorded in Germany in 2005. It eventually won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for music, making Coleman only the second jazz artist to win the prize.
Coleman continued to push himself into unusual playing situations, often with much younger musicians or musicians from radically different musical cultures. An increasing number of his compositions, while not ubiquitous, have become minor jazz standards, including "Lonely Woman", "Peace", "Turnaround", "When Will the Blues Leave?", "The Blessing", "Law Years", "What Reason Could I Give" and "I've Waited All My Life". He has influenced virtually every saxophonist of a modern disposition, and nearly every such jazz musician, of the generation that followed him. His songs have proven endlessly malleable: pianists such as Paul Bley and Paul Plimley have managed to turn them to their purposes; John Zorn recorded Spy vs Spy (1989), an album of extremely loud, fast, and abrupt versions of Coleman songs. Finnish jazz singer Carola covered Coleman's "Lonely Woman" and there have even been progressive bluegrass versions of Coleman tunes (by Richard Greene).
Ornette Coleman died of a cardiac arrest at the age of 85 in New York City on June 11, 2015. His funeral was a three-hour event with performances and speeches by several of his collaborators and contemporaries.
All of My Life
Ornette Coleman Lyrics
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Bill Spencer All Of My Life I have Been Looking For Someone…
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Bush Watch your back as life comes over you Choose your weapon…
Byron Lee & The Dragonaires You don't love me no more Get out my life woman You…
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Cheat Codes & Trixxie What can I do? How can I say it? Don't want…
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DAD BOD Pleased to meet you Won't you stick around Lot's of people L…
Detroit Soul For once in my life I have someone who needs…
Diana Ross All of my life I have walked alone In search of a…
Diana Ross and Michael Jackson All of my life I have walked alone In search of a…
Donna Cruz All of my life I have walked alone In search of a…
E.J. Chandler Te esquecendo da boca pra fora Te amando do copo pra…
Erica Campbell They wanna ask how long I'll be here I say forever Let's…
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Forever Love Song Vol-5 Yeah we from the northside Getting money, hella fly Gotta li…
G.B.A. I was born 1980 September 3rd That's the day checks come…
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Geraldo & His Orchestra All My Love, I give you All My Love, The skies…
Graham BLVD Well the midnight headlights blind you on a rainy night Stee…
Harry James Every day of my life you'll be near to me For…
Hixxy / Sharkey / Scott Brown / Breeze & Styles I come from the south west the bottom ain't nothing…
Impact & Weaver If I never hear from you again Oh baby I want…
Incognito Good morning my early bird I see you've brought a chorus…
Ivory Joe Hunter All my life I've been waiting for you My wonderful one I'…
J.R. (Yeah, yeah, yeah) (All my life) All my life, I've been…
Jamie Bergeron & The Kickin' Cajuns If you don′t want me I'll go away And just let…
Joel All my life I've searched this whole world through Try as I…
John Lennon My life, take it, it's mine to give Take it, let…
Julian Thomas who can tell me what's wrong and what's right, I'm surrounde…
June Christy All of my life I've been dreamin' the wrong dream,…
K-Ci & JoJo Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby,…
Kathy Troccoli Is it a dream, 'cause I can't believe We're at the…
kaye malana-cantong All of my life I have walked alone In search of a…
Kevin Morby All of my life waiting for you Just to be by…
Lesley Gore I`ve been looking for a boy like you All of my…
Lloyd & Charlie Your forever telling me I'm weak When I'm critized I never…
London Symphony Orchestra;Ornette Coleman Close your eyes and I'll kiss you Tomorrow I'll miss you Rem…
Magnum Now everything's gone my way I'm a king among men I did…
Malford Milligan & Friends Getting to know yourself is something you owe yourself you k…
Marco Sison Once in my life I never had a day so bright You…
Mario Biondi Everybody is looking for something in their dreams Everybody…
Martin Kesici A million times they said: "Man you're looking great" And ki…
Marvin Gaye I know, woah, the essence of your togetherness Darling, is s…
Marvin Hamlisch I was alone You were alone Parallel lines that touched one a…
MC Magic- All My Life Tell me can I talk to you Girl where do you…
Michael Jackson & Diana Ross All of my life I have walked alone In search of a…
MJ I can see Squeem all alone in the distance That's not…
MYMP Come and lay here beside me I'll tell you how I…
Mystique Yeah Yeah Yeah So the song is gonna start real…
Natalie Yeah, yeah, yeah Ooh whoa whoa Whoa, whoa, ooh Yeah, yeah Al…
Obie Trice Eleven, fourteen, seventy-seven a nigga entered Big lips, po…
Obie Trice (feat. Nate Dogg) Jeah, uh Real niggas stand up, uh Whoo Jeah, uh, uh, yo Fro…
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Peters & Lee Don't walk away, I'm falling down Don't walk away, I'm falli…
Phil Collins All of my life, I've been searching For the words to…
Phoebe This is the first day of my life Swear I was…
Phoebe Katis Here's a new place Here are new faces and yet you…
Pop Royals I was alone, I took a ride I didn't know what…
Pro Entlek heOwz awungitshela Usakhumbula ntwana sicale kanjani…
Pussy My head hurts, I feel like shit This ain't fun…
Rj Verse 1 When you move next to me I feel like gravity…
Roger Whittaker The stark of grass tastes sweet upon my tongue the tiny…
Rory Block There is an old house that is standing Surrounded by the…
Sam Cooke All of my life, yes all of my life I've waited,…
Sam Gray Pick yourself of the floor Try to be stronger I am ready…
Sarah Vaughan I'm gonna laugh you Right out of my life Laugh, and forget…
Sarah Vaughan & Billy Eckstine Ooh,yeah From rags to riches, here I stand Shaped and molded…
Sebb Junior & Paula That quiet voice inside of my soul It's rising up again Oh…
Sophie I had the best time of my life Talkin' over…
Steve Earle I guess I don't get out too much If it wasn't…
Swing & Sway with Sammy Kaye with Billy Williams You are the sunshine of my life That's why I'll always…
Tamara Hey, hey Good times Good times Get back to my life Good time…
The Carpenters All of my life I have been waiting For just one…
The Fantastics Don't be all up on me All up in my…
The Gary Tesca Orchestra A few stolen moments is all that we share You've got…
The Seventies she's back She's back to my life she's back to my eyes she's…
The Wake Woods Verse When you talk in symphonies And show me things that I…
TIESTO/FAST BOY All my life, all my life I've been runnin' around, I've…
Tim And Eric All my life all I wanted was the glow Break that…
Todd Snider Snider Driving all day we both said nothing You threw yo…
Tony Bennett I just want the right to love you All of my…
Tq Yeah All my life Uh-huh Ooh, yeah, yeah Why All of my life…
Trin-i-tee 5:7 Always knew to talk to you you're always there in…
Trixxie What can I do? How can I say it? Don't want…
Various Artists I know it's not enough to say I'm wrong You know…
Vaughan/Eckstine Ooh,yeah From rags to riches, here I stand Shaped and molded…
Zeid and The Wings There are places I'll remember All my life, though some have…
横山輝一 All of my life Oh,Baby I've got it oh yeah And I'm…
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We have lyrics for these tracks by Ornette Coleman:
All My Life I've waited all my life for you and now you're here you neve…
Bird Food [Instrumental]…
Embraceable You Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you! Embrace me, you irrepl…
Free Jazz Unga boinga, this music sucks. this music sucks. random nois…
How Deep is the Ocean How much do I love you? I'll tell you no lie How…
How Deep Is The Ocean? How much do I love you? I'll tell you no lie How…
Lover Come Back To Me You went away I let you We broke the ties that bind I…
Poise Some nights we got too high to fall asleep These nights…
Proof Readers BIG TYMERS Miscellaneous Big Tymers (Intro)"(feat. Bullet …
Una Muy Bonita [Instrumental]…
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