After an unsuccessful spell with R&B in his Texas homeland, Coleman moved to the freer atmosphere of the West Coast. There he hooked up with other sympathetic artists including Don Cherry and Charlie Haden who he would later collaborate with on a number of ventures.
Innovation has been the hallmark of Coleman’s career and though he has at times been regarded as being ahead of his audiences, he has released a number of highly regarded albums, widely praised as moving free jazz forward.
Among his releases, the albums Change of the Century (1959), Science Fiction (1971) and Sound Grammar (2006) are considered to be among his strongest. The Sound Grammar album, released almost 50 years after his first, earned him a Pulitzer Prize.
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