"Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who……" — Joe Torre

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• In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As… — Jimmy Carter
• I'm glad [Ornette Coleman] is such an individualist. I like the firmness of thought and purpose that goes into what… — Paul Desmond
• Scientists say because of global warming they expect the world's oceans to rise four and a half feet. The scientists… — Conan O'Brien
• When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads — Miles Davis
• At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one… — Thelonious Monk
• A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was… — Cannonball Adderley
• Ornette Coleman wasn't sure whether he was going to continue with Charlie Haden-Charlie had some personal problems. I said "You've… — Paul Bley
• I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours… — Miles Davis
• I'd listened to [Ornette Coleman] all kinds of ways. I listened to him high and I listened to him cold… — Roy Eldridge
• Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie,… — John Lewis
• Man, that cat [Ornette Coleman] is nuts. — Thelonious Monk
• Of course when people are as talented as Jim O'Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they're going… — Evan Parker

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