Ornette Coleman His Life and Music Author:Peter Niklas Wilson With the release of the album Free Jazz in 1960, Ornette Coleman inaugurated a movement that went on to dominate jazz for a decade. In the '70s, his fusion group, Prime Time, took his orchestral ideal of sound into the electric era, and in later years, he recorded albums with Jerry Garcia and Pat Metheny. Today, at 69 years of age, Ornette Colem... more »an continues to push the envelope. In this first book about Coleman in over a decade, jazz biographer Peter Niklas Wilson divides the story into three parts. Part One traces Coleman from his youth in Texas and his breakthrough in New York City to decades of experimentation with electric and classical groups. Part Two explains "harmolodics," Coleman's esoteric musical theory. Part Three contains a complete narrative discography.« less