Died saxophonist Ornette Coleman, jazz history that … – Daily News – Lisbon

A representative of the family, quoted by the New York newspaper said that the musician died after suffering a heart attack.

Coleman’s story intersects with the history of resistance to the New State in Portugal : its business in Cascais Jazz 1971 – first jazz festival in Portugal – finished under threat of police intervention after their bassist, Charlie Haden, who died a year ago in Los Angeles, dedicating a song to the liberation movements of Angola and Mozambique.

The audience warmly received the political declaration, with cheers and raised fists, but the bass was immediately arrested by the PIDE, who escorted him to Lisbon airport, forcing him to leave the country .

The vast majority of the Portuguese press at the time, under the gaze of the censorship, ignored what happened.

Ornette Coleman debuted on disc in 1958 with “Something else”. Their third album, a year later, confirm the route: “The shape of jazz to come,” “Jazz as to come”

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