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Ornette Coleman: An Innovator Of The First Order, But Certainly No Messiah

At the remove of sixty years, there is a temptation to say, "Ornette Coleman, so what?" His early music does not sound particularly out there. And by contemporary standards, it is not. The initial shock of Ornette Coleman in the mid 1950s wore off decades ago.
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my intro to Ornette was Song X and I still find it to be his best work.

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