Pitchfork

The winners of the Pulitzer Prize were announced yesterday, and among the ranks of journalists, authors, and critics are two jazz giants.

Free jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman won the Music Pulitzer for his most recent full-length, last year's Sound Grammar, and John Coltrane (maybe you've heard of him?) was awarded a Pulitzer Special Citation "for his masterful improvisation, supreme musicianship, and iconic centrality to the history of jazz," according to the Pulitzer website. Fahrenheit 451 author Ray Bradbury was the other Special Citation recipient.

We're still waiting for Coleman's foray into investigative reporting. Then it's really on.

Coleman also has a couple handfuls of mostly TBA dates this summer, but his appearances at Bonnaroo, London's Royal Festival Hall, and the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam are all confirmed.

Dates:

06-17 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo
07-06 Kongsberg, Norway - TBA
07-09 London, England - Royal Festival Hall
07-11 Perugia, Italy – TBA
07-13 Pescara, Italy - TBA
07-15 Rotterdam, Netherlands – North Sea Jazz Festival
07-18 Warsaw, Poland – TBA
07-20 Vitoria, Spain – TBA
09-23 Monterey, CA - TBA
09-26 Los Angeles, CA - TBA