Editing Ornette Coleman (section)

== Personal life ==
Jazz pianist [[Joanne Brackeen]] stated in an interview with [[Marian McPartland]] that Coleman mentored her and gave her music lessons.<ref name="Lyon">{{cite news |last1=Lyon |first1=David |title=Joanne Brackeen On Piano Jazz |url=https://www.npr.org/2011/11/04/101558445/joanne-brackeen-on-piano-jazz |website=NPR.org |access-date=December 16, 2018 |date=March 14, 2014}}</ref>

Coleman married poet [[Jayne Cortez]] in 1954. The couple divorced in 1964.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Poet-Jayne-Cortez-makes-heady-music-with-Ornette-3237076.php |title=Poet Jayne Cortez makes heady music with Ornette Coleman sidemen |last=Rubien |first=David |date=October 26, 2007| website=sfgate.com |access-date=July 13, 2020}}</ref> They had one son, [[Denardo Coleman|Denardo]], born in 1956.<ref name="Fox">{{cite news |last1=Fox |first1=Margalit |title=Jayne Cortez, Jazz Poet, Dies at 78 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/04/arts/jayne-cortez-poet-and-performance-artist-dies-at-78.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=December 16, 2018 |date=January 3, 2013}}</ref>

Coleman died of [[cardiac arrest]] in Manhattan on June 11, 2015, aged 85.<ref name="Ratliff" /> His funeral was a three-hour event with performances and speeches by several of his collaborators and contemporaries.<ref name="Remnick">{{cite magazine |last1=Remnick |first1=David |title=Ornette Coleman and a Joyful Funeral |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/ornette-coleman-and-a-joyful-funeral |magazine=The New Yorker |access-date=December 16, 2018 |date=June 27, 2015}}</ref>