Artist: Ornette Coleman
Title: The Atlantic Years [Remastered]
Year Of Release: 2018
Label: Rhino Atlantic
Genre: Jazz, Free Jazz
Quality: FLAC [Tracks, 24bit/192kHz] cover
Total Time: 06:36:46 min
Total Size: 15,4 Gb
Miles Davis had publicly called him a madman. Leonard Bernstein found him, for his part, completely awesome. Few were those that didn’t have a definitive opinion on Ornette Coleman. Some kind of outlaw who preferred playing his own compositions rather than jazz classics, the American saxophonist also developed harmolodics, a theory uniting harmonics and melody. This box of ten discs compiles one of the most important era in the career of his author. Between 1959 and 1961, he released six studio albums for the Atlantic label. Six albums that are present here and spiced up with alternative takes and various bonuses, all of this of course impeccably remastered by John Webber. Albums included: The Shape Of Jazz To Come (1959), Change Of The Century (1959), This Is Our Music (1960), Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (1960), Ornette! (1961) and Ornette On Tenor (1961), and the compilations The Art Of Improvisers (1970), Twins (1971), To Whom Who Keeps A Record (1975) and The Ornette Coleman Legacy (1993).
On most of his Atlantic albums, Coleman recorded with a quartet that included trumpeter Don Cherry, plus either Charlie Haden or Scott LaFaro on bass, and either Billy Higgins or Ed Blackwell on drums. One notable exception is Free Jazz, a ground-breaking single-track album where Coleman led a double quartet through a nearly 40-minute collective improvisation. The stereo mix used for the album separates the quartets into different channels; one on the right and the other on the left. Coleman worked extensively with producer Nesuhi Ertegun on the music featured in this collection. Their partnership began in 1959 with Coleman's Atlantic debut, The Shape of Jazz To Come, an album the Library of Congress added to its National Recording Registry in 2012.
Among the albums included in THE ATLANTIC YEARS are three compilations that Atlantic released in the 1970's: The Art Of Improvisers (1970), Twins (1971), and To Whom Who Keeps A Record (1975.) These albums include outtakes from recording sessions for all six of Coleman's studio albums.
CDs:
Disc 1 • The Shape Of Jazz To Come (1959)
Disc 2 • Change Of The Century (1959)
Disc 3 • This Is Our Music (1960)
Disc 4 • Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (1960)
Disc 5 • Ornette! (1961)
Disc 6 • Ornette On Tenor (1961)
Disc 7 • The Art Of Improvisers (1970)
Disc 8 • Twins (1971)
Disc 9 • To Whom Who Keeps A Record (1975)
Disc 10 • The Ornette Coleman Legacy (1993)
Tracklist:
Disc 1 • The Shape Of Jazz To Come (1959)
01. Lonely Woman (5:01)
02. Eventually (4:23)
03. Peace (9:05)
04. Focus On Sanity (6:53)
05. Congeniality (6:49)
06. Chronology (6:04)
Musicians:
Ornette Coleman - alto saxophone
Don Cherry - cornet
Charlie Haden - bass
Billy Higgins - drums
Recorded on May 22, 1959.
Disc 2 • Change Of The Century (1959)
01. Ramblin' (6:38)
02. Free (6:22)
03. The Face Of The Bass (6:56)
04. Forerunner (5:16)
05. Bird Food (5:32)
06. Una Muy Bonita (6:02)
07. Change Of The Century (4:40)
Musicians:
Ornette Coleman - alto saxophone
Don Cherry - pocket trumpet
Charlie Haden - bass
Billy Higgins - drums
Recorded on October 8 & 9, 1959.
Disc 3 • This Is Our Music (1960)
01. Blues Connotation (5:20)
02. Beauty Is A Rare Thing (7:16)
03. Kaleidoscope (6:36)
04. Embraceable You (4:59)
05. Poise (4:42)
06. Humpty Dumpty (5:24)
07. Folk Tale (4:47)
Musicians:
Ornette Coleman - alto saxophone
Don Cherry - pocket trumpet
Charlie Haden - bass
Ed Blackwell - drums
Recorded on July 19, 26 & August 2, 1960.
Disc 4 • Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (1960)
01. Free Jazz (Part 1) (19:51)
02. Free Jazz (Part 2) (17:03)
Musicians
Left channel:
Ornette Coleman - alto saxophone
Don Cherry - pocket trumpet
Scott LaFaro - bass
Billy Higgins - drums
Right channel:
Eric Dolphy bass clarinet
Freddie Hubbard - trumpet
Charlie Haden - bass
Ed Blackwell - drums
Recorded on December 21, 1960.
Disc 5 • Ornette! (1961)
01. WRU (16:26)
02. T & T (4:36)
03. C & D (13:11)
04. RPDD (9:38)
Musicians:
Ornette Coleman - alto saxophone
Don Cherry - pocket trumpet
Scott LaFaro - bass
Ed Blackwell - drums
Recorded on January 31, 1961.
Disc 6 • Ornette On Tenor (1961)
01. Cross Breeding (11:19)
02. Mapa (9:08)
03. Enfant (6:29)
04. EOS (6:38)
05. Ecars (7:35)
Musicians:
Ornette Coleman - tenor saxophone
Don Cherry - pocket trumpet
Jimmy Garrison - bass
Ed Blackwell - drums
Recorded on March 22 & 27, 1961.
Disc 7 • The Art Of Improvisers (1970)
01. The Circle With A Hole In The Middle (4:52)
02. Just For You (3:55)
03. The Fifth Of Beethoven (6:39)
04. The Alchemy Of Scott Lafaro (9:52)
05. Moon Inhabitants (4:35)
06. The Legend Of Bebop (7:18)
07. Harlem's Manhattan (8:09)
Musicians:
Ornette Coleman - alto saxophone; tenor saxophone on 7
Don Cherry - pocket trumpet; cornet on 2
Charlie Haden - bass on 1-3, 5, 6
Scott LaFaro - bass on 4
Jimmy Garrison - bass on 7
Billy Higgins - drums on 1, 2
Ed Blackwell - drums on 3-7
Rec.: October 9 (#1), May 22 (#2), 1959; July 26 (#3, 5, 6), 1960; January 31 (#4), March 27 (#7), 1961.
Disc 8 • Twins (1971)
01. First Take (17:04)
02. Little Symphony (5:18)
03. Monk And The Nun (5:54)
04. Check Up (10:13)
05. Joy Of A Toy (4:55)
Musicians:
Ornette Coleman - alto saxophone
Don Cherry - pocket trumpet on 1 (left), 4; trumpet on 2, 5; cornet on 3
Scott LaFaro - bass on 1 (left), 4
Charlie Haden - bass on 1 (right), 2, 3, 5
Billy Higgins - drums on 1 (left), 3
Ed Blackwell - drums on 1 (right), 2, 4, 5
Freddie Hubbard - trumpet on 1
Eric Dolphy - bass clarinet on 1
Recorded: May 22 (#3), 1959; July 19 (#2) and 26 (#5), December 21 (#1), 1960; January 31 (#4), 1961.
Disc 9 • To Whom Who Keeps A Record (1975)
01. Music Always (5:31)
02. Brings Goodness (6:40)
03. To Us (4:35)
04. All (4:34)
05. P.S. Unless One Has (Blues Connotation No. 2) (5:54)
06. Some Other (7:22)
07. Motive For Its Use (5:41)
Musicians:
Ornette Coleman - alto saxophone
Don Cherry - pocket trumpet
Charlie Haden - bass
Billy Higgins - drums on 1
Ed Blackwell - drums on 2-7
Recorded: October 8 (#1), 1959; July 19 (#5) and 25 (#2-4, 6, 7) 1960.
Disc 10 • The Ornette Coleman Legacy (1993)
01. Rise And Shine (6:15)
02. The Tribes Of New York (4:36)
03. I Heard It Over The Radio (6:23)
04. Revolving Doors (4:28)
05. Mr. And Mrs. People (4:43)
06. Proof Readers (10:28)
Musicians:
Ornette Coleman - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
Don Cherry - pocket trumpet
Charlie Haden - bass
Ed Blackwell - drums
Recorded in 1959-1961
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