The Ornette Coleman Double Quartet - Free Jazz - A Collective Improvisation album flac
Performer: The Ornette Coleman Double QuartetTitle: Free Jazz - A Collective Improvisation
Style: Free Jazz
Country: US
MP3 album: 1698 mb
FLAC album: 1739 mb
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Genre: Jazz
Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation is the sixth album by jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman, released on Atlantic Records in 1961, his fourth for the label. Its title established the name of the then-nascent free jazz movement. The recording session took place on December 21, 1960, at A&R Studios in New York City. The sole outtake from the album session, "First Take," was later released on the 1971 compilation Twins.
The full title on the cover is "Free Jazz - A Collective Improvisation By The Ornette Coleman Double Quartet". The spine of the CD only mentions Ornette Coleman as artist without the Double Quartet added. Comes in a Digipak with a clear tray and an 8-page booklet.
The very first Ornette Coleman album from 1958, with a very programmatic title and four exclamation marks. An album with Coleman on alto, Don Cherry on cornet, Don Payne on double bass and Billy Higgins on drums. Amazingly enough, we find Walter Norris on piano, an instrument that is not usually used by Coleman, because the use of chords forced the band too much into a straight-jacket.
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55 years ago today, saxophonist Ornette Coleman released one of the seminal jazz albums of the 1960s as well as one with a title that helped name a musical movement. Coleman had already fired a musical warning shot of sorts earlier in 1961, when he released his album entitled This Is Our Music, and it's in no way hyperbolic to say that the music he was making at the time was out of step with the jazz movement of the day in the best possible way. Free Jazz, however, was something else entirely, with Coleman performing with a double quartet, one in each stereo channel
Ornette Coleman: Free Jazz by C. Michael Bailey, published on September 30, 2011. Alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman's masterpiece, Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation by the Ornette Coleman Double Quartet, is one of the hinges of jazz evolution. As a musical hinge, Free Jazz, heard from this side of its development, is a bit of an anticlimax compared with the two-label, five album prelude to this point: Something Else!!!! (Contemporary, 1958), Tomorrow is the Question! (Contemporary, 1959), The Shape of Jazz to Come (Atlantic, 1959), Change of the Century (Atlantic, 1959) and This is Our Music (Atlantic, 1959)
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Tracklist Hide Credits
| A | Free Jazz (Part 1)Composed By – Ornette Coleman |
19:55 |
| B | Free Jazz (Part 2)Composed By – Ornette Coleman |
16:28 |
Companies, etc.
- Record Company – Warner Communications
- Lacquer Cut At – Specialty Records Corporation
- Pressed By – Specialty Records Corporation
- Manufactured By – Atlantic Recording Corporation
Credits
- Alto Saxophone – Ornette Coleman
- Bass – Charlie Haden, Scott LaFaro
- Bass Clarinet – Eric Dolphy
- Design [Album Design] – Loring Eutemy*
- Drums – Billy Higgins, Ed Blackwell
- Engineer [Recording] – Tom Dowd
- Liner Notes – Martin Williams
- Painting [White Light] – Jackson Pollock
- Recording Supervisor – Nesuhi Ertegun
- Trumpet – Freddie Hubbard
- Trumpet [Pocket] – Donald Cherry*
Notes
FREE JAZZ was recorded in one uninterrupted "take" of 36 minutes 23 seconds. This performance by Ornette Coleman's Double Quartet is heard exactly as it was performed in the studio, without any splicing or editing. Side One ends with a quick fade-out, and the music resumes with a minimum of interruption on Side Two.On stereo Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Scott LaFaro and Billy Higgins are heard on the left channel, Eric Dolphy, Freddie Hubbard, Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell are heard right.
Thick cardboard no-die-cut gatefold cover, not laminated.
Disc labels:
Orange / green labels. Orange / green / yellow Altlantic logo on top.
Mfg by Altlantic recording corp 75 Rockefeller Plaza N.Y. N.Y. [Logo "W"] A Warner Communications company
Category's on release:
Spine: ATLANTIC 1364
Disc labels: SD 1364
Front cover (legacy artwork Category): ATLANTIC 1364
Back cover (legacy artwork Category): 1364
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Matrix / Runout (Label side A): (ST-A-61343-SP)
- Matrix / Runout (Label side B): (ST-A-61344-SP)
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 1): ST-A-61343-E PR ̸P̸ SP O-/SM 1-1
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 1): ST-A-61344-E PRSP O-/SM 1-1
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 2): [etched] ST-A- 61343 -E PR ̸P̸ SP O-/
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 2): [etched] ST-A-61344-F 1-1 sf/atl. [stamped, logo] SRC
Other versions
| Category | Artist | Title (Format) | Label | Category | Country | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD 1364 | The Ornette Coleman Double Quartet | Free Jazz (LP, Album) | Atlantic | SD 1364 | US | 1961 |
| SD-1364 | The Ornette Coleman Double Quartet | Free Jazz - A Collective Improvisation By (LP, RE, Gat) | Atlantic | SD-1364 | US | Unknown |
| HATS 421-223 | Ornette Coleman | Free Jazz (LP, Album, Gat) | Atlantic, Hispavox | HATS 421-223 | Spain | 1977 |
| SD-1364, ATLANTIC 1364 | The Ornette Coleman Double Quartet | Free Jazz - A Collective Improvisation By (LP, Album, RE, Gat) | Atlantic, Atlantic | SD-1364, ATLANTIC 1364 | US | Unknown |
| 50-16.013 | Ornette Coleman | Free Jazz (LP, Album, Gat) | Atlantic, Music Hall | 50-16.013 | Argentina | 1978 |









