"Let's play the music and not the background!"
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As quoted in "Building New Jazz; Rhythm Mode" by Hollie I. West, in The Washington Post (February 14, 1971), p. N9.
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Ornette Coleman
Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 19, 1930 - June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.
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