Ornette Coleman, who earlier this year became only the second jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize for music, swept the top honors at the Jazz Awards 2007, winning in four categories, including musician of the year.Check out some vintage Coleman:
One of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 50's and 60's, the 77 year-old's journey has been amazing - to say the least.
Coleman's "Sound Grammar," the first purely improvised live recording to win the Pulitzer, was chosen album of the year in balloting among more than 400 members of the Jazz Journalists Association.
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