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The Atlantic Years

GENRE(S): Jazz

STYLE(S): Free Jazz

Condition: New & Sealed

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UPC

081227940690

Decade Recorded

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Vinyl Weight

Disc Quantity

10

Vinyl Color

Black

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Description

Ornette Coleman recorded one of the greatest bodies of work in jazz during a 22-month-long burst of creativity. Between 1959 and 1961, the saxophonist and composer released six studio albums on Atlantic Records that helped usher in the avant-garde, free jazz movement.

Those albums, along more than two hours of session outtakes, are featured together in the 10-LP boxed set ORNETTE COLEMAN: THE ATLANTIC YEARS, featuring newly remastered audio by John Webber at AIR Studios. Several of these titles are long out-of-print on vinyl. The Ornette Coleman Legacy, featuring six songs originally released for the first time in 1993 as part of Rhino’s CD boxed set Beauty Is A Rare Thing, making its vinyl debut.

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.

One of the most important (and controversial) innovators of the jazz avant-garde, Ornette Coleman gained both loyal followers and lifelong detractors when he seemed to burst on the scene in 1959 fully formed.

Originally inspired by Charlie Parker, he started playing alto at 14 and tenor two years later. His early experiences were in R&B bands in Texas, including those of Red Connors and Pee Wee Crayton, but his attempts to play in an original style were consistently met with hostility both by audiences and fellow musicians. Coleman moved to Los Angeles in the early '50s, where he worked as an elevator operator while studying music books.

Coleman, who recorded for Verve in the '90s, has remained true to his highly original vision throughout his career and, although not technically a virtuoso and still considered controversial, is an obvious giant of jazz. He recorded sparingly as the 21st century began, appearing on Joe Henry's Scar in 2000 and on single tracks on Lou Reed's Raven and Eddy Grant's Hearts & Diamonds, both released in 2002.

Tracklist

Side A (The Shape Of Jazz To Come)
  1. Lonely Woman
  2. Eventually
  3. Peace
  4. Ramblin'
  5. Free
  6. The Face Of The Bass
  7. Blues Connotation
  8. Beauty Is A Rare Thing
  9. Kaleidoscope
  10. Free Jazz - Part 1
  11. W.R.U.
  12. T. & T.
  13. Cross Breeding
  14. Mapa
  15. The Circle With A Hole In The Middle
  16. Just For You
  17. The Fifth Of Beethoven
  18. The Alchemy Of Scott La Faro
  19. First Take
  20. Little Symphony
  21. Music Always
  22. Brings Goodness
  23. To Us
  24. All
  25. Rise And Shine
  26. The Tribes Of New York
  27. I Heard It Over The Radio
Side B (The Shape Of Jazz To Come)
  1. Focus On Sanity
  2. Congeniality
  3. Chronology
  4. Forerunner
  5. Bird Food
  6. Una Muy Bonita
  7. Change Of The Century
  8. Embraceable You
  9. Poise
  10. Humpty Dumpty
  11. Folk Tale
  12. Free Jazz - Part 2
  13. C. & D.
  14. R.P.D.D.
  15. Enfant
  16. Eos
  17. Ecars
  18. Moon Inhabitants
  19. The Legend Of Bebop
  20. Harlem's Manhattan
  21. Monk And The Nun
  22. Check Up
  23. Joy Of A Toy
  24. P.S. Unless One Has (Blues Connotation No. 2)
  25. Some Other
  26. Motive For Its Use
  27. Revolving Doors
  28. Mr. And Mrs. People
  29. Proof Readers

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