Celebrated for his rich, smooth improvisational skill on the saxophone, American
jazz musician George Coleman has performed and made recordings with a starry
list of jazz players from the 1950s when he was in his twenties well into the
21st century in his eighties. The 2015 NEA Jazz Masters honoured his life's
achievements as saxophonist, composer and educator, and in a review of his 2016
album 'A Master Speaks', which went to number 18 on Billboard's Jazz Albums
Chart, the Guardian noted that while his "gold-plated reputation" went back to
recordings with B.B.King, Miles Davis a...