From WSJ.com, a profile of Anthony Coleman.
Mr. Coleman, 54, was born in Brooklyn Heights and raised in Cobble Hill. After earning degrees at the New England Conservatory of Music and Yale University, he returned to the city in 1979 and dove into the nascent downtown music scene, playing regularly with the men who would become its cornerstone figures: saxophonist John Zorn, trumpeter Dave Douglas and Mr. Ribot. Mr. Coleman worked often as a sideman during the 1980s, but he also formed his best-known band, Sephardic Tinge, which has released three recordings and draws on jazz, Jewish musical traditions and Latin musical styles. (The word “tinge” is a reference to the exotic jazz style known as “Spanish tinge,” which Morton coined.)
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