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Biography
Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s.
Awards & recognition
- Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award · 2007
- Pulitzer Prize — Music · 2007
- Praemium Imperiale · 2001
- MacArthur Fellows Program · 1994
- Guggenheim Fellowship · 1974
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- Guggenheim Fellowship · 1967
- honorary doctorate from Columbia University
- NEA Jazz Masters
- Paul Acket Award
