Ornette Coleman - The Atlantic Years [2018] (10 x CD's)

ORNETTE COLEMAN

Ornette Coleman - The Atlantic Years [2018] (10 x CD's)

The arrival of the Ornette Coleman Quartet in New York in the late autumn of 1959 represented one of the pivotal events of 20th century culture, comparable to the première of Igor Stravinsky’s Rite Of Spring in Paris in 1917 or Elvis Presley’s debut on the Ed Sullivan Show almost 40 years later. And, of course, with a similarly upsetting effect on the old folks. Jazz, barely half a century old, had grown used to an evolutionary process that took the music from Louis Armstrong to Miles Davis at a rapid but reasonably smooth clip. With very little warning, Coleman lit a set of booster rockets that fired the music into outer space. Suddenly musicians and observers who had thought of themselves as living on the leading edge of the music could be seen clinging desperately to the tail fins. (Uncut)

When we hear the first notes of “Lonely Woman,” the first track on the first album Ornette Coleman made for Atlantic Records, very little about the composition, now a classic, or the way it’s played—by Coleman, alto saxophone; Don Cherry, cornet; Charlie Haden, bass; Billy Higgins, drums—sounds all that avant-garde. If everything is relative, our musical judgments are no exception. We’ve had nearly 60 years, since “Lonely Woman” opened The Shape of Jazz to Come, to assimilate far more radical schemes of improvisation, both solo and collective. But many listeners in 1959 hadn’t yet made the jump, and the required ear/brain adjustments, from swing and bebop to the morphing harmonies, keening melodies, almost Cubist structures, and ensemble elasticity of Coleman’s music. The great trumpeter Roy Eldridge famously said, “I think he’s jiving baby.” (theabsolutesound.com)

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TRACK LISTS

CD1 The Shape Of Jazz To Come

01     Lonely Woman    
02     Eventually    
03     Peace    
04     Focus On Sanity    
05     Congeniality    
06     Chronology    
   
CD2  Change Of The Century

01     Ramblin'    
02     Free    
03     The Face Of The Bass    
04     Forerunner    
05     Bird Food    
06     Una Muy Bonita    
07     Change Of The Century    
   
CD3  This Is Our Music

01     Blues Connotation    
02     Beauty Is A Rare Thing    
03     Kaleidoscope    
04     Embraceable You    
05     Poise    
06     Humpty Dumpty    
0007     Folk Tale    

CD4  Free Jazz

01     Free Jazz - Part 1    
02    Free Jazz - Part 2    
   
CD5  Ornette!

01     W.R.U.    
02     T. & T.    
03     C. & D.    
04     R.P.D.D.
   
CD6  Ornette On Tenor

01     Cross Breeding    
02     Mapa    
03     Enfant    
04     Eos    
05     Ecars

CD7  The Art Of The Improvisers

01     The Circle With A Hole In The Middle    
02     Just For You    
03     The Fifth Of Beethoven    
04     The Alchemy Of Scott La Faro    
05     Moon Inhabitants    
06     The Legend Of Bebop    
07     Harlem's Manhattan    

CD8  Twins

01     First Take    
02     Little Symphony    
03     Monk And The Nun    
04    Check Up    
05     Joy Of A Toy
   
CD9  To Whom Who Keeps A Record

01     Music Always    
02     Brings Goodness    
03     To Us    
04     All    
05     P.S. Unless One Has (Blues Connotation No. 2)    
06     Some Other    
07     Motive For Its Use
   
CD10  The Ornette Coleman Legacy

01     Rise And Shine    
02     The Tribes Of New York    
03     I Heard It Over The Radio    
04     Revolving Doors    
05     Mr. And Mrs. People    
06     Proof Readers

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