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Mr. Coleman

Mr. Coleman

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Jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman, 85, dies

Ornette Coleman, a self-taught alto saxophone player who polarized the jazz world with his unconventional “free jazz” before coming to be regarded as an avant garde genius, died Thursday, June 11, 2015, in New York, according to his publicist. He was 85.