It's been a decade since the last bounty of Ornette recordings. 1995-96 saw releases from his free-funk mélange Prime Time; a robust quartet with pianist Geri Allen and bassist Charnett Moffett; and ...

A small shock wave rippled through the jazz world two years ago when the saxophonist Ornette Coleman started performing regularly again after a long absence. His new group was an acoustic quartet, ...

Many will no doubt mistake Ornette Coleman’s new Sound Grammar for a comeback—and with good reason. For starters, the guy who made it—the alto saxophonist who, in the ’50s, more or less invented free ...