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[SCREENING] At the age of 14, Ornette Coleman picked up his first saxophone. Coleman grew up in segregated Texas. This is not a cliché: but the young boy who would eventually become a cultural icon in the jazz world and beyond, actually saved up money to buy his first saxophone by shining shoes. He says that the first time he picked up the instrument, he played it as well as he would 25 years later in Hamburg, Germany when he reunited the original Ornette Coleman quartet. Directory Shirley Clarke and producer Kathelin Hoffman chronicle the famed jazzist’s boyhood in Fort Worth Texas as the saxophonist returned there in 1983, in their film Ornette: Made In America. The film will be screened at Hallwalls on Thursday, December 4.