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1	Sound Grammar (2006) more music like this by Ornette Coleman Sound Grammar was recorded in Germany in front of a live audience in October of 2005 with his new quartet -- Greg Cohen (bass), Denardo Coleman (drums and percussion), Tony Falanga (bass), and Ornette (alto, violin, trumpet) -- it's the first "new" product from Coleman in ten years. That said, with the exception of "Song X," the last song on the ... see all copies from $16.49! new only from $16.49!
2	Skies of America (1972) more music like this by Ornette Coleman Here's what is known about Ornette Coleman's first recorded orchestral symphonic work (he had written others previously and had them performed but never put on tape): After hiring conductor David Measham and the London Symphony Orchestra, British musicians' union rules prohibited Coleman from using his own quartet to play on the record. As a ... see all copies from $8.75! new only from $8.75!
3	The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959) more music like this by Ornette Coleman Ornette Coleman's Atlantic debut, The Shape of Jazz to Come, was a watershed event in the genesis of avant-garde jazz, profoundly steering its future course and throwing down a gauntlet that some still haven't come to grips with. The record shattered traditional concepts of harmony in jazz, getting rid of not only the piano player but the whole ... see all copies from $10.50! new only from $10.50!
4	This Is Our Music (1960) more music like this by Ornette Coleman With two landmark albums already under its belt, the Ornette Coleman Quartet spent nearly a year out of the studio before reconvening for This Is Our Music. This time, Billy Higgins is replaced on drums by Ed Blackwell, who has a similar knack for anticipating the ensemble's direction, and proves a more fiery presence on tracks like "Kaleidoscope" ... see all copies from $10.50! new only from $10.50!
5	Dancing in Your Head (1973) more music like this by Ornette Coleman Following the symphonic explorations of 1972's Skies of America, Ornette Coleman became fascinated with the music of Morocco. Dancing in Your Head is the chaotic result of that experimental period with the formation of Prime Time. "Theme From a Symphony" (Variation One and Two) is a 27-minute dervish whirlwind mixed with funk. This was the first ... see all copies from $13.71! new only from $13.71!
6	Complete Science Fiction Sessions (2000) more music like this by Ornette Coleman Finally, on a pair of CDs in one collection are the rest of Ornette Coleman's Columbia recordings, all of them done before Skies of America. Science Fiction was a regular part of Columbia's jazz catalogue, and Broken Shadows was released on LP in 1982. On this double set, both of those records and three previously unreleased cuts from those ... see all copies from $17.44! new only from $22.14!
7	Ornette! [Bonus Track] (2004) more music like this by Ornette Coleman Recorded a little over a month after his groundbreaking work Free Jazz, this album found Coleman perhaps retrenching from that idea conceptually, but nonetheless plumbing his quartet music to ever greater heights of richness and creativity. Ornette! was the first time bassist Scott LaFaro recorded with Coleman, and the difference in approach ... see all copies from $11.23! new only from $11.23!
8	Something Else!!!!:The Music of Ornette Coleman (1958) more music like this by Ornette Coleman This 1958 debut recording by the Ornette Coleman Quintet, which featured Coleman on his trademark white plastic alto, Don Cherry on trumpet, Billy Higgins on drums, Walter Norris on piano, and Don Payne on bass, shook up the jazz world -- particularly those musicians and critics who had entered the hard bop era with such verve and were busy using ... see all copies from $10.29! new only from $10.29!
9	Tomorrow Is the Question! (1959) more music like this by Ornette Coleman On his second outing for the Contemporary label, Ornette dusted the piano from the bandstand and focused instead on a quartet. For some unexplained reason, Billy Higgins was replaced by Shelly Manne; the only constants remain Coleman and Don Cherry. The focus, then, is on the interplay between the altoist and trumpeter in executing Ornette's tunes ... see all copies from $10.80! new only from $10.80!
10	Change of the Century (1959) more music like this by Ornette Coleman The second album by Ornette Coleman's legendary quartet featuring Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Billy Higgins, Change of the Century is every bit the equal of the monumental The Shape of Jazz to Come, showcasing a group that was growing ever more confident in its revolutionary approach and the chemistry in the bandmembers' interplay. When Coleman ... see all copies from $9.48! new only from $9.55!
11	Naked Lunch (1992) more music like this by Howard Shore/Ornette Coleman/London Philharmonic Orchestra You couldn't do much better for a soundtrack to David Cronenberg's adaptation of William S. Burroughs' beat classic than have Ornette Coleman team up with Howard Shore, a film composer who keeps within the strictures of classic film score ideals and colorations, but explores them with the intelligence of Bernard Herrmann. Coleman's free jazz ... see all copies from $13.01! new only from $13.01!
12	Song X [Twentieth Anniversary Edition] (2005) more music like this by Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman Released in 1985, Song X was Pat Metheny's first recording for the Geffen label. After a prosperous career with ECM, Metheny realized a lifelong dream by collaborating with Ornette Coleman. (He had previously collaborated with both bassist Charlie Haden (an Ornette alumnus), and drummer Jack DeJohnette. A second drummer, Denardo Coleman, was added ... see all copies from $16.85! new only from $16.85!
13 view cover	Free Jazz (A Collective Improvisation) (1960) more music like this by Ornette Coleman Double Quartet As jazz's first extended, continuous free improvisation LP, Free Jazz practically defies superlatives in its historical importance. Ornette Coleman's music had already been tagged "free," but this album took the term to a whole new level. Aside from a predetermined order of featured soloists and several brief transition signals cued by Coleman, ... see all copies from $11.11! new only from $11.11!
14 view cover	At the "Golden Circle" in Stockholm, Vol. 1 [Bonus Tracks] (1965) more music like this by Ornette Coleman Ornette Coleman's 1965 trio with bassist David Izenzon and drummer Charles Moffett is easily the most underrated of all his bands. Coming off the light of the famed quartet in which Don Cherry, Eddie Blackwell, and Charlie Haden shone, anything might have looked a bit dimmer, it's true. But this band certainly had no apologies to make. Coleman was ... see all copies from $11.04! new only from $11.13!
15 view cover	At the "Golden Circle" in Stockholm, Vol. 2 [Bonus Tracks] (1965) more music like this by Ornette Coleman Trio The second night of Ornette Coleman's two-week stand in Sweden was even fierier than the first, if the recorded documents are to be believed. For starters, December 4 was the night that Coleman brought out the violin and the trumpet on the first tune; "Snowflakes and Sunshine" must have taken club-goers by surprise. Those first notes skitter ... see all copies from $11.13! new only from $11.13!
16 view cover	Beauty Is a Rare Thing: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1959) more music like this by Ornette Coleman While it's true this set has been given the highest rating AMG awards, it comes with a qualifier: the rating is for the music and the package, not necessarily the presentation. Presentation is a compiler's nightmare in the case of artists like John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman, who recorded often and at different times and had most of their ... see all copies from $81.31! new only from $82.01!
17 view cover	Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz, Vol. 5 (1991) more music like this by Various Artists see all copies from $5.48!
18 view cover	Jazz: The Definitive Performances (1999) more music like this by Various Artists To commemorate the end of the century, Sony Music assembled the gargantuan 26-disc box set Sony Music 100 Years: Soundtrack for a Century. The title was imposing, as was the idea behind it -- to chronicle the life of the oldest record label in the music industry. To be clear, Sony Music has not existed for 100 years, but the heart of its catalog, ... see all copies from $6.30! new only from $22.14!
19 view cover	Song X (1985) more music like this by Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman Guitarist Pat Metheny had long expressed admiration for Ornette Coleman's music, had recorded his compositions, and had worked extensively with bassist Charlie Haden, so a collaboration was not totally unexpected, though who would have guessed that it would be on the Geffen label? Metheny's almost rock star status has worked against him in other ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $17.01!
20 view cover	The Art of the Improvisers (1959) more music like this by Ornette Coleman Like many of Ornette Coleman's Atlantic sides, Art of the Improvisers was recorded in numerous sessions from 1959-1961 and assembled for the purpose of creating a cohesive recorded statement. Its opening track, "The Circle With the Hole in the Middle," from 1959, with the classic quartet of Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell, and Charlie Haden, is one of ... see all copies from $8.68! new only from $10.50!
21 view cover	Twins (1959) more music like this by Ornette Coleman The five performances on this LP were not released until 1971. Of greatest interest is a shorter version of the nearly 40 minute "Free Jazz," which at 17 minutes was simply titled "First Take." In addition, the innovative altoist is heard on four quartet numbers with cornetist Don Cherry, either Charlie Haden or Scott LaFaro on bass, and Ed ... see all copies from $10.50! new only from $10.50!
22 view cover	New York Is Now (1968) more music like this by Ornette Coleman Recorded during the same session that resulted in the Love Call album (in late April and early May of 1968), New York Is Now is one of the true curiosity pieces in Ornette's catalog. With a rhythm section comprised of ex-Coltrane sidemen Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones as well as tenorist Dewey Redman, Ornette is, in some sense, at odds with ... see all copies from $11.12! new only from $11.13!
23 view cover	Atlantic Jazz: The Avant Garde (1986) more music like this by Various Artists Part of a 12-volume set of LPs that covered Atlantic's history of jazz slotted into neat little genre labels, Atlantic Jazz: The Avant Garde is not an entirely satisfying disc. Partially this is because most of the artists represented here -- including Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus, and Don Cherry -- did their most exploratory and adventurous ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $10.00!
24 view cover	To Whom Who Keeps a Record (1975) more music like this by Ornette Coleman see all copies from $14.25! new only from $14.25!
25 view cover	A Meeting of the Times/Ornette! (1999) more music like this by Rahsaan Roland Kirk & Al Hibbler/Ornette Coleman Your attention please: this duplex reissue disc does not contain two complete albums. One beautiful track -- "Something 'Bout Believing," Rahsaan's passionate rendition of a melody from Duke Ellington's Second Sacred Concert of 1968 -- was omitted simply because there wasn't room on the disc. And if there wasn't room on the disc for these two ... see all copies from $12.15! new only from $12.15!

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