Saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman, whose 1959 album “The Shape of Jazz to Come” is considered one of the most groundbreaking in the genre’s history, died Thursday. He was 85. Coleman has been in the news of late has it had been nearly 20 years since Coleman has released a studio album when a new LP donning the saxophonist’s name titled New Vocabulary arrived quietly in 2014. A year later, Coleman has filed a federal lawsuit against Antibalas’ Jordan McLean and drummer Amir Ziv for releasing New Vocabulary without Coleman’s “consent or knowledge.” More info can be found here on the ongoing issues.
