Saxophonist Ornette Coleman once described him as " probably the best tenor player in the world.

Saxophonist Evan Parker observed that Stevens had two basic rules: ( 1 ) If you can't hear another musician, you're playing too loud, and ( 2 ) if the music you're producing doesn't regularly relate to what you're hearing others create, why be in the group?

Saxophonist and " fifth Coaster " King Curtis was stabbed to death by two junkies outside his apartment building in 1971.

Thee Midniters have continued to play through the decades under the leadership and management of Bassist Jimmy Espinoza and Saxophonist Larry Rendon, the two original players remaining in the line-up from the original 1960s group.

Saxophonist Jackie McLean, a stalwart of the label's hard bop output since the late 1950s, also crossed over into the avant-garde in the early 1960s, whose notable avant-garde albums included One Step Beyond and Destination Out.

Saxophonist John Coltrane has also made a notable impression on Carlton, and Carlton's live albums have featured cuts from Miles Davis ' Kind of Blue.

* Saxophonist Pharoah Sanders recorded a song called " High Life " on Rejoice ( 1981 ).

His first professional recording as a Pianist was in July 2006 in Geneva: together with the Saxophonist Eduardo Kohan he recorded the CD Tango Nómade.

Saxophonist Marion Meadows covered the song for his album Pleasure in 1997, while Filipino singer Nina recorded her own version of it for her 2008 album Nina Sings the Hits of Diane Warren.

Saxophonist Wilton ' Bogey ' Gaynair settled in Germany working mainly with Kurt Edelhagen's orchestra.

Saxophonist Jeff Coffin joined the band beginning with the album Left of Cool.

Saxophonist Benny Carter underplayed his attacks, Teddy Wilson played the piano with a delicate touch, Benny Goodman stopped using the thick vibrato of Jimmy Noone and other clarinetists.

The original band fell apart between 1966 and 1968, with members leaving to go to university or to join other bands ; Saxophonist Rob Lind became a fighter pilot in the Vietnam War.

Saxophonist Rob Burke toured with the band for 6 months during this period.

Saxophonist Hank Mobley made his recording debut on the label, as a sideman with Dorham.

Saxophonist Phil Pruden left the group starting with the release of " California Kicks " in 1966 making The Challengers a four piece guitar driven group for the remainder of their run.

Saxophonist Sidney Bechet made a slow rendition in 1941 with Charlie Shavers.

As well as his work in rock and pop, Rai has performed in a number of jazz combos with many Australian jazz musicians, including ARIA award winning guitarist James Muller, U. S. jazz bassist Christian McBride, Tenor Saxophonist Dale Barlow and Phil Stack who also plays bass in Thirsty Merc.

Saxophonist Fabrizio Cassol, bassist Michel Hatzigeorgiou, and drummer Stéphane Galland are the founding members of the core trio.

Saxophonist Greg Orsby joined the group for various concerts, particularly toward the end of the tour, and guest artists including Page McConnell and Dickey Betts sat in for individual sets.

Saxophonist Boney James covers his rendition on his final track " The Night I Fell In Love " on Backbone in 1994.

* Julian Smith, Saxophonist, who became known after appearing on the third series of ' Britain's Got Talent ' in 2009.

Saxophonist Nick Hefner played on only one track.

Saxophonist Sonny Rollins included a cover of this song on his 1977 album Easy Living.

* “ God Sends a Saxophonist ,” Ragamuffin Prayers ( Nashville, TN: CCM Books: Harvest House Publishers, 2000 ).

Terry Plumeri furthered the development of arco ( bowed ) solos, achieving horn-like technical freedom and a clear, vocal bowed tone, while Charlie Haden, best known for his work with Ornette Coleman, defined the role of the bass in Free Jazz.

In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 – 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.

Guitarists in the fusion realm fused the post-bop harmonic and melodic language of musicians such as John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Ornette Coleman, and Miles Davis with a hard-edged ( and usually very loud ) rock tone created by iconic guitarists such as Cream's Eric Clapton who'd redefined the sound of the guitar for those unfamiliar with the black blues players of Chicago and, before that, the Delta region of the Mississippi upon whom his style was based.

The performers included Ornette Coleman and other renowned free jazz performers.

Ono collaborated with experimental luminaries such as John Cage and jazz legend Ornette Coleman.

During her career, Ono has collaborated with a diverse group of artists and musicians including John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Klaus Voormann, Cornelius ( Keigo Oyamada, Naoki Shimizu and Yoko Araki ), Frank Zappa, Sean Lennon, Yuka Honda, Jim Keltner, Earl Slick, Peaches, John Cage, David Tudor, George Maciunas, Ornette Coleman, Charlotte Moorman, George Brecht, Jackson Mac Low, Jonas Mekas, Fred DeAsis, Yvonne Rainer, La Monte Young, Richard Maxfield, Zbigniew Rybczyński, Yo La Tengo, and Andy Warhol ( in 1987 Ono was one of the speakers at Warhol's funeral ).

* March 19 – Ornette Coleman, American musician

In jazz, Ornette Coleman and Chick Corea wrote different compositions, both incidentally titled Humpty Dumpty ( in Corea's case, however, it is a part of a concept album inspired by Lewis Carroll, called " The Mad Hatter " ( 1978 )).

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the free jazz movement coalesced around such important ( and disparate ) figures as Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, and John Coltrane, as well as many lesser-known figures such as Joe Maneri and Joe Harriott.

Meanwhile he developed his taste and interest in music, listening " intensively " to the Delta blues of Son House and Robert Johnson, jazz artists such as Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk and Cecil Taylor, and the Chicago blues of Howlin ' Wolf and Muddy Waters.

Lester Bowie and Ornette Coleman worked with the Tenores di Bitti, and Eleanor Hovda has written a piece using the Xhosa style of singing.

During this period, Dolphy also played in a number of challenging settings, notably in key recordings by Ornette Coleman, arranger Oliver Nelson and George Russell.

With Ornette Coleman

In jazz one could cite a first wave of experimenters associated with bebop, such as Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Dexter Gordon, and Bud Powell, and then a second wave associated with free jazz, including Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, and the later recordings of John Coltrane.

Uncle Tupelo was inspired by bands such as Jason & the Scorchers and The Minutemen, influencing the recording of Wilco's A. M .. Tweedy and O ' Rourke enjoyed free jazz artists such as Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, and Derek Bailey ; they also listen to mainstream jazz by artists such as Miles Davis and John Coltrane.

It was later performed and recorded by other artists, including Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, and Bill Evans.

Subsequently, in 2006, a posthumous " Special Citation " was given to jazz composer Thelonious Monk, and in 2007 the prize went to Ornette Coleman, a free jazz composer.

* 2007: Ornette Coleman, Sound Grammar

In LA's jazz milieu, he played alongside notable musicians including Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry and Billy Higgins.

: For the Ornette Coleman album see Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation.

Free jazz is most strongly associated with the 1950s innovations of Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor and the later works of saxophonist John Coltrane.

As guitarist Marc Ribot has remarked, free jazz musicians like Ornette Coleman and Albert Ayler, " although they were freeing up certain strictures of bebop, were in fact each developing new structures of composition.

The mid-1950s recordings of Ornette Coleman for Contemporary ( Something Else!