NEW YORK - Ornette Coleman, who earlier this year became only the second jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize for music, swept the top honors at the Jazz Awards 2007 last week, winning in four categories, including musician of the year.
Coleman's Sound Grammar, the first purely improvised live recording to win the Pulitzer, was chosen album of the year in balloting among more than 400 members of the Jazz Journalists Association.
The 77-year-old Coleman's unorthodox “Sound Grammar" quartet was chosen the year's best small ensemble.
Coleman, whose CD was his first new recording in 10 years, won individual awards as alto saxophonist and musician of the year.
But the most touching moments at the ceremony held at the Jazz Standard club came when Andrew Hill, who died at age 75 in April after a long battle with lung cancer, posthumously won three awards - as composer and pianist of the year and for lifetime achievement in jazz.
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Coleman's Sound Grammar, the first purely improvised live recording to win the Pulitzer, was chosen album of the year in balloting among more than 400 members of the Jazz Journalists Association.
The 77-year-old Coleman's unorthodox “Sound Grammar" quartet was chosen the year's best small ensemble.
Coleman, whose CD was his first new recording in 10 years, won individual awards as alto saxophonist and musician of the year.
But the most touching moments at the ceremony held at the Jazz Standard club came when Andrew Hill, who died at age 75 in April after a long battle with lung cancer, posthumously won three awards - as composer and pianist of the year and for lifetime achievement in jazz.
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