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Ornette Coleman was born in Fort Worth, Texas on March 9, 1930. His father died when he was seven and his mother worked as a seamstress. When he was 14 he got his first saxophone and taught himself how to play. Before long he was playing in local R & B shows. When he was [...]

Don Cherry was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on November 18, 1936. Cherry’s family moved to Los Angeles when he was quite young, and he was raised there. He started playing the trumpet in his early teens. In his late teens, he started playing professionally.
In the 1950’s he met Ornette Coleman in a record [...]