Ornette Coleman and Outrage
Don Snowden, Rock's Backpages, December 2010
AMAZING, ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. At 80 years old, Ornette Coleman is still capable of generating overt displays of outrage without doing anything more than playing his music the way he wants with the people he wants.
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