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FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2007, file photo, U.S. jazz legend Ornette Coleman plays the sax during his only concert in Germany at the philharmonic concert house in Essen, Germany. Coleman, the visionary saxophonist who pioneered &quot;free jazz&quot; and won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007, died, on Thursday, June 11, 2015 in New York. He was 85. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

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