9 March 1930 - 11 June 2015
The singer-songwriter recalls the ‘quiet intensity’ of the American saxophonist who with her stepfather,Don Cherry, took jazz in wild unusual directions
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• BB King remembered by Joe BonamassaI first met Ornette when I was just two and a half, and when I went to unusual York with Don [Cherry,her stepdad] and Moki [her mother]. We stayed in Ornette’s building in Brooklyn. He lived there and practised on another floor. John Coltrane and Elvin Jones practised upstairs.
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Source: theguardian.com