Ornette Coleman

If you invented a school of music called “harmolodics,” you might think it means “Lots of harmony! Lots of melody!” Apparently to Ornette Coleman, it meant “I put those terms in the name, so now I don’t have to put them in my music!” But the MacArthur people claim him as a genius, so what do I know?

Ornette Coleman AllMusic page

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