Ornette Coleman

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• Stoughton Printing old-style tip-on jackets

• 4 stars all music guide

Tomorrow Is the Question! is the second album by American jazz musician Ornette Coleman, originally released in 1959 by the Contemporary label.

The springboard in Ornette Coleman?s pursuit of freedom of expression as a soloist, Tomorrow Is The Question! is notable for its lack of piano, which the saxophone maverick chose to strike from the record in favor of a quartet composed of drummer Shelly Manne, trumpeter Don Cherry, and alternatingly Percy Heath and Red Mitchell on bass.

Coleman?s belief was that removing piano and thus layers of harmonic structure, would allow the soloists to truly roam freely around the tune, pioneering new dimensions in sonic interplay. As a result, Tomorrow Is the Question! was a very literal title; where would Coleman?s iconoclastic vision take him next? The free-jazz pioneer was just getting started, and what a dazzling start it is! An essential document of American Jazz History.

PERSONNEL:

• Ornette Coleman - (alto sax)
• Don Cherry - (trumpet)
• Percy Heath - (bass on SIDE A)
• Red Mitchell - (bass on SIDE B)
• Shelly Manne - (drums)

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Tomorrow Is the Question!
• A2. Tears Inside
• A3. Mind And Time
• A4. Compassion
• A5. Giggin'
• A6. Rejoicing

• SIDE B
• B1. Lorraine
• B2. Turnaround
• B3. Endless