Ornette Coleman: This is Our Music (1960) Atlantic/ Decca London

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We haven’t had a post for the Free tendency for a while, so Ornette can point the way. Get one Free, get another one, also Free. Free for the price of two, which isn’t three. Selection: Kaleidoscope  .  .  . … Continue reading →

Ornette Coleman “Change of the Century” (1959)

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Track selection 1: Bird Food Second selection 2: Una Muy Bonita Artists Don Cherry (cor) Ornette Coleman (as) Charlie Haden (b) Billy Higgins (d) recorded NYC, October 8, 1959, engineer Bones Howe Music  Ornette Coleman seems to attract as devoted a … Continue reading →

Ornette Coleman “Twins” (1961)

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Track Selection (long): “Check Up” 10:00 > Artists on Check Up: Don Cherry (cor) Ornette Coleman (as) Scott LaFaro (b) Ed Blackwell (d) recorded NYC, January 31, 1961. Recording Engineer Tom Dowd. Other tracks:  Don Cherry (pocket tp) Freddie Hubbard (tp) Eric … Continue reading →

Review, Ornette at London Jazz Festival 22nd November 2011

Some of you free fans might be interested in a review of Ornette’s appearance at the London Jazz Festival  on 22nd November. http://londonjazz.blogspot.com/2011/11/review-ornette-coleman.html Finished apparently with a preformance of “Lonely Woman”. Sounds perfect to me. I believe the concert will … Continue reading →

Ornette Coleman: Free Jazz (1960) Atlantic

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  Track selection: (excerpt) .  .  . Artists Don Cherry, pocket trumpet; Freddie Hubbard, trumpet; Eric Dolphy, bass clarinet; Ornette Coleman, alto saxophone;  Charlie Haden, Scott LaFaro , bass; Ed Blackwell, Billy Higgins, drums; recorded NYC, December 21, 1960 For … Continue reading →

One more for the jazz bohemians: Ornette! (1961)

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Track Selection: “Totem & Taboo” >> Artists Don Cherry (cor) Ornette Coleman (as) Scott LaFaro (b) Ed Blackwell (d)  recorded January 31, 1961, NYC Music Recorded one month after the genre-defining Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation in 1961, the composition titles … Continue reading →

Ornette Coleman “Art of the Improvisers” (1971)

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Ornette Coleman “On Tenor” (1962)

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Track Selection: “Eos”: Artists Don Cherry (pocket tp) Ornette Coleman (ts) Jimmy Garrison (b) Ed Blackwell (d) recorded NYC, March 22, 1961 Music More structured dissonace from Ornette, this time from 1962’s “On Tenor”, with regular Don Cherry on pocket trumpet, … Continue reading →

Ornette Coleman “Shape of Jazz to Come” (1959)

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Track Selection: “Lonely Woman” > Artists Don Cherry (cor) Ornette Coleman (as) Charlie Haden (b) Billy Higgins (d) recorded Los Angeles, CA, May 22, 1959 Music Lonley Woman is possibly one of  Ornette’s most iconic and musically accessible pieces, and … Continue reading →

Ornette Coleman “Tomorrow is the Question” (1959)

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Pictures upgraded April 15, 2020 Track Selection: “Tomorrow is the Question!” .  .  . Artists Don Cherry, cornet; Ornette Coleman, alto sax; Red Mitchell, bass;  Shelly Manne, drums; recorded  Los Angeles, CA, January 16, 1959 Music Perhaps tame by future … Continue reading →