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Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) [1] was an American jazz saxophonist, trumpeter, violinist, and composer. He is best known as a principal founder of the free jazz genre, a term derived from his 1960 album Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation .
Virgin Beauty is an album by Ornette Coleman and his Prime Time ensemble. It was released by Portrait Records in 1988.. Three of the album's tracks feature guitarist Jerry Garcia, whose involvement with the recording can be traced back to September 1987, when Coleman, his son Denardo, and Cecil Taylor, attended a Grateful Dead concert. [1]
1958: Coleman Classics Volume 1 (Improvising Artists, 1977) With Charlie Haden. 1976: Closeness (Horizon, 1976) 1976: The Golden Number (A&M, 1977) With Jamaaladeen Tacuma. 1983–84: Renaissance Man (Gramavision, 1984) 2010: For the Love of Ornette (Jazzwerkstatt, 2010) With others. Geri Allen, Eyes in the Back of Your Head (Blue Note, 1997)
Ornette's first album with Prime Time was Dancing in Your Head, released in 1977. [1] Their 1988 album Virgin Beauty, which featured guest appearances by Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia, was their most successful, peaking at number two on Billboard Jazz Albums chart and selling more in its first year than any previous Coleman record. [2]
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In response, Garcia came up with "Grateful Dead" by opening a Funk & Wagnalls dictionary to an entry for "Grateful dead". [26] [27] [71] The definition for "Grateful dead" was "a dead person, or his angel, showing gratitude to someone who, as an act of charity, arranged their burial". [72] The band's first reaction was disapproval.
Born to Jayne Cortez and Ornette Coleman in Los Angeles, California, in 1956, [1] Denardo Coleman began playing drums when he was six years old. At the age of 10, he joined his father's band, [2] making his first appearance on record on the 1966 Ornette Coleman album The Empty Foxhole, with Charlie Haden on bass. Haden said of Denardo's playing ...
Beauty Is a Rare Thing: The Complete Atlantic Recordings is a box set by American jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman compiling his master recordings made for Atlantic between 1959 and 1961, released on Rhino Records on November 16, 1993.