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Ornette Coleman with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell

Two extended pieces on Ornette’s life starting from his birth in Fort Worth, Texas through the 1960s and 1970s, roughly the first half of his career.

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Four Lives in the Bebop Business
By A.B. Spellman

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American Musicians II: Seventy-One Portraits in Jazz By Whitney Balliett

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Interview with Philip Arneill of TokyoJazzJoints.com
Documenting Japan's Jazz Shrines
Shirley Clarke: "Ornette: Made in America" (1985)

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