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Working within jazz while occupying multiple instrumental roles, he contributed both as a performer on saxophone and trumpet and as a composer whose output accompanied his instrumental work. His activity as a bandleader and recording artist gave his compositions a documented presence within the genre.\n\nThe range of honors Coleman accumulated reflects the degree to which his work drew sustained institutional attention. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship and was named a MacArthur Fellow, two awards associated with significant creative and intellectual achievement. The National Endowment for the Arts designated him a Jazz Master, and he received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his contributions to recorded music. He was also awarded the Praemium Imperiale and the Paul Acket Award, as well as an honorary doctorate from Columbia University.\n\nColeman's most formally distinctive recognition came when he received the Pulitzer Prize for Music, one of the most selective honors in American arts and letters. That award was conferred during his lifetime, standing as a concrete marker of the critical and institutional attention his work received. Coleman died in Manhattan on June 11, 2015, and the Pulitzer Prize remains among the most specific and consequential honors attached to his name.","The mid-twentieth century in the United States saw jazz undergo substantial transformation, as musicians pushed against the harmonic and structural conventions that had defined the bebop era. 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I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'",7,false,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":48,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":49},{},[],{"id":66,"quote_text":67,"author_id":5,"source_id":68,"has_image":61,"author":69,"source":70,"quote_tag":71,"commentary":49},3324492,"After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that’s how I ended up just being a saxophone player.",6,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":48,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":49},{},[],{"id":73,"quote_text":74,"author_id":5,"source_id":68,"has_image":61,"author":75,"source":76,"quote_tag":77,"commentary":49},3324490,"That’s what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don’t play music, has a sound – their own sound, that thing that you’re talking about.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":48,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":49},{},[],{"id":79,"quote_text":80,"author_id":5,"source_id":68,"has_image":61,"author":81,"source":82,"quote_tag":83,"commentary":49},3324487,"You’ve got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it’s all played by the same notes.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":48,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":49},{},[],{"id":85,"quote_text":86,"author_id":5,"source_id":68,"has_image":61,"author":87,"source":88,"quote_tag":89,"commentary":49},3324485,"I don’t really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I’d like to be doing lots of other things. 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I’m really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":48,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":49},{},[],{"id":109,"quote_text":110,"author_id":5,"source_id":68,"has_image":61,"author":111,"source":112,"quote_tag":113,"commentary":49},3324470,"I’ve never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I’d be left with the record company. And then – because they got fired – the record company wouldn’t do anything for me.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":48,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":49},{},[],{"id":115,"quote_text":116,"author_id":5,"source_id":68,"has_image":61,"author":117,"source":118,"quote_tag":119,"commentary":49},3324467,"It seems the activity of expressing sound to do with music has just started blooming – and because of that, the beginners feel like they’re professionals, and the professionals feel like they are beginners, which is very healthy.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":48,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":49},{},[],{"currentPage":121,"totalPages":122,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":122},1,10]