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Ornette Coleman Wins A Pulitzer Prize

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Ornette Coleman won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his album Sound Grammar (Sound Grammar, 2006). In a rare move, the Pulitzer committee chose someone who wasn’t nominated.

NPR has the story and audio selections from the album.

Posted by Jason Crane on Tuesday, April 17, 2007, at 10:52 am. Filed under Jazz, Music. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. Comments are closed, but you can trackback from your blog.