Ornette Coleman

PLUS 1 BONUS TRACKS

4 1/2 STARS ALL JUSIC GUIDE

INCLUDES FREE MP3 ALBUM DOWNLOAD

This release presents the seminal Ornette Coleman album This Is Our Music (Atlantic SD1353) in its entirety, featuring the wonderful piano-less quartet with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell. The group consisted of modern players working with the same concept: a freer way of playing jazz, which transcended the strict confines of melody, harmony and rhythm. They would create a whole new idiom by constructing music via the interplay of simultaneous collective improvisation. Coleman had made his debut on records in February/March 1958 with the LP Something Else!!!!. The quartet of Coleman/Cherry/Haden and Billy Higgins on drums was heard on The Shape of Jazz to Come and Change of the Century.

This Is Our Music came after the two aforementioned albums, and featured Ed Blackwell on drums in place of Higgins. As terrific as it is, this remains the only recording with the “classic” lineup of this quartet: Ornette on alto saxophone, Don Cherry on pocket trumpet, Charlie Haden on bass, and Ed Blackwell on drums (even though they participated together on other projects with larger groups, they wouldn’t all record together again in a quartet format).

PERSONNEL:

ORNETTE COLEMAN, alto sax
DON CHERRY, pocket trumpet
CHARLIE HADEN, bass
ED BLACKWELL, drums

Atlantic Recording Studios, New York, July-August 1960.
A1 & A3: Tuesday, July 19, 1960 (8 pm to 12 pm).
A4, B1 & B3: Tuesday, July 26, 1960 (6 pm to 9 pm & 10 pm to 1 am).
A2, B2 & B4: Tuesday, August 2, 1960 (6 pm to 9 pm & 10 pm to 1 am).

SIDE A:

01 BLUES CONNOTATION (5:17)
02 BEAUTY IS A RARE THING (7:13)
03 KALEIDOSCOPE (6:36)
04 ALL (4:31)*

SIDE B:

01 EMBRACEABLE YOU (4:54)
02 POISE (4:40)
03 HUMPTY DUMPTY (5:23)
04 FOLK TALE (4:45)
*Bonus track: From t