[Jazz musician Ornette Coleman, bust portrait, facing front] – Historic Photograph Print
![[Jazz musician Ornette Coleman, bust portrait, facing front], 1960 October 24. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/2c/2ce2b8332913-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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[Jazz musician Ornette Coleman, bust portrait, facing front] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Jazz musician Ornette Coleman, bust portrait, facing front]
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Ornette Coleman, the saxophonist who helped push jazz toward free improvisation, sits for this bust portrait facing the camera. The print was made on October 24, 1960, the year his quartet's recordings and Los Angeles engagement drew intense debate among critics and fellow musicians. It came to the New York World-Telegram and the Sun through Monte Kay Management and Shaw Artists Corp., agencies that circulated publicity images of their clients to newspapers. Its place in the paper's files makes it a useful record of how the press presented avant-garde jazz figures at the time.
| Created / published | 1960 October 24. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Publicity photographs 1960.Portrait photographs 1960.Photographic prints 1960. |
| Notes | From: Mildred Fields, Monte Kay Management, N.Y. Direction: Shaw Artists Corp. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Coleman, Ornette. African Americans--Music--1960. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,251 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-207286 |
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