Ornette Coleman

This six-CD set contains the entirety of Ornette Coleman's recorded output for the Atlantic label, including the contents of the following albums: "The Shape of Jazz to Come",  "Change of the Century", "This Is Our Music", "Free Jazz", "Ornette!", "Ornette On Tenor", "The Art of the Improvisers", "Twins", "To Whom Who Keeps A Record" (previously unreleased outside Japan). Also inclued here are six previously unreleased compositions and two selections from Gunther Schuller's "Jazz Abstractions" featuring Ornette Coleman on alto sax.


PERSONNEL:

ORNETTE COLEMAN, alto & tenor sax
DON CHERRY, pocket trumpet, cornet
CHARLIE HADEN, bass
BILLY HIGGINS or ED BLACKWELL, drums

ALSO FEATURING:

ERIC DOLPHY, bass clarinet, alto sax, flue
BILL EVANS, piano
JINNY GARRISON, bass
JIM HALL, guitar
FEDDIE HUBBARD, trumpet
SCOTT LaFARO, bass

CD ONE:

01. Focus On Sanity
02. chronology
03. Peace
04. Congeniality
05. Lonely Woman
06. Monk And The Nun
07. Just for You
08. Eventually
09. Una Muy Bonita
10. Bird Food11
12. Music Always

CD TWO:

01. The Face Of The Bass
02. Forerunner
03. Free
04. The Circle With A Hole In The Middle
05. Ramblin'
06. Little Symphony
07. The Tribes Of New York
08. Kaleidoscope
09. Rise and Shine
10. Mr. and Mrs. People (previously unreleased)
11. P.S. Unless One Has (Blues Connotation)
12. I Heard It Over the Radio (previously unreleased)

CD THREE:

01. P.S. Unless One Has (Blues Connotation No. 2)
02. Revolving Doors (previously unreleased)
03. Brings Goodness
04. Joy Of A Toy
05. To Us
06. Humpty Dumpty
07. The Fifth Of Beethoven
08. Motive for Its Use
09. Moon Inhabitants
10. The Legend Of Bebop
11. Some Other
12. Embraceable You
13. All

CD FOUR:

01. Folk Tale
02. Poise
03. Beauty Is a Rare Thing
04. First Take
05. Free Jazz Parts 1 & 2

CD FIVE:

01. Proof Readers (previously unreleased)
02. W.R.U.
03. Check Up
04. T & T
05. C. & D.
06. R.P.D.D
07. The Alchemy of Scott LaFaro

CD SIX:

01. Eos
02. Enfant
03. Ecars
04. Cross Breeding
05. Harlem's Manhattan
06. Mapa
07. Abstraction
08. Variants On a Theme of Thelonious Monk (Criss-Cross)

"The package itself is, as are all Rhino boxes, handsome and original; there are three double-CD sleeves that all slip into a half box, which slips, reversed, into the whole box. There is a 72-page booklet with a ton of photographs, complete session notes, and liners by Coleman (disappointingly brief, but he was pissed off at the label), a fantastic essay by the late Robert Palmer, recollections by all the musicians, and quotes from Coleman from interviews given through the decades. The sound is wonderful and the mastering job superb. In all -- aside from the breach of pop culture's own historical context, which is at least an alternate reality -- this is, along with John Coltrane's Atlantic set and the Miles & Coltrane box, one of the most essential jazz CD purchases." - Thom Jurek, All Music Guide