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1	The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959) more music like this by Ornette Coleman add to wishlist 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 $8.51! new only from $8.51!
2	This Is Our Music (1961) more music like this by Ornette Coleman add to wishlist 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 $9.00! new only from $9.00!
3	Twins (1959) more music like this by Ornette Coleman add to wishlist Ornette Coleman's Twins (first issued on LP in 1971) has been looked at as an afterthought in many respects. A collection of sessions from 1959, 1960, and 1961 with different bands, they are allegedly takes from vinyl LP sessions commercially limited at that time to 40 minutes on vinyl, and not initially released until many years later. ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $9.00!
4	Song X [Twentieth Anniversary Edition] (1985) more music like this by Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman add to wishlist 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 $9.54! new only from $15.38!
5	New York Is Now! (1968) more music like this by Ornette Coleman add to wishlist 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 $9.91! new only from $9.91!
6	Sound Grammar (2006) more music like this by Ornette Coleman add to wishlist 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 $8.95! new only from $13.29!
7	At the "Golden Circle" in Stockholm, Vol. 1 [Bonus Tracks] (1965) more music like this by Ornette Coleman Trio add to wishlist 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 $5.11! new only from $5.11!
8	Complete Science Fiction Sessions (2000) more music like this by Ornette Coleman add to wishlist 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 $12.49! new only from $15.18!
9	At the "Golden Circle" in Stockholm, Vol. 2 [Bonus Tracks] (1965) more music like this by Ornette Coleman Trio add to wishlist 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 $9.91! new only from $9.91!
10	Free Jazz (A Collective Improvisation) (1960) more music like this by Ornette Coleman Double Quartet add to wishlist 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 $6.83! new only from $6.83!
11	Complete Live at the Hillcrest Club (2007) more music like this by Ornette Coleman add to wishlist Ornette Coleman's epic 1959 LPs The Shape of Jazz to Come and Change of the Century were pivot points in modern post-bop jazz and early creative music. This recording is a prelude to those epics, a live two-night engagement in October of 1958 at the Hillcrest Club in Los Angeles. The Coleman quintet, with trumpeter Don Cherry, bassist Charlie ... see all copies from $10.30! new only from $10.30!
12	Ornette! [Bonus Track] (1961) more music like this by Ornette Coleman add to wishlist 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 $6.83! new only from $6.83!
13	Virgin Beauty (1988) more music like this by Ornette Coleman with Prime Time add to wishlist This CD is often quite exciting, if a bit messy. Ornette Coleman (on alto, trumpet and violin) is heard with his "double quartet" Prime Time, which at the time was comprised of guitarists Bern Nix and Charlie Ellerbee, electric bassists Al MacDowell and Chris Walker, and drummers Denardo Coleman (who also plays some keyboards) and Calvin Weston. ... see all copies from $13.95! new only from $69.33!
14	The Empty Foxhole (1966) more music like this by Ornette Coleman add to wishlist Ornette Coleman's brief tenure at Blue Note was neither as seminal as his Atlantic output nor as brazenly ambitious as his early-'70s work for Columbia and later with Prime Time. Still, the period did produce some quality music, and The Empty Foxhole is one of his most intriguing efforts. Coleman hadn't entered a recording studio in over four ... see all copies from $14.99! new only from $44.95!
15	Visions of Jazz: A Musical Journey (1998) more music like this by Various Artists add to wishlist Both beginning and ending with tracks uniting Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, Visions of Jazz: A Musical Journey is a two-disc set tracing the evolution of jazz. It hits most of the major artists -- Count Basie, Coleman Hawkins, Benny Goodman, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Stan Getz, Sonny ... see all copies from $28.78! new only from $28.78!
16	Ken Burns Jazz (2000) more music like this by Ornette Coleman add to wishlist In conjunction with the release of Ken Burns' ten-part, 19-hour epic PBS documentary Jazz, Columbia issued 22 single-disc compilations devoted to jazz's most significant artists, as well as a five-disc historical summary. Since the individual compilations attempt to present balanced overviews of each artist's career, tracks from multiple labels ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $7.68!
17	In All Languages (1987) more music like this by Ornette Coleman add to wishlist This is an unusual and very stimulating double CD. On the first CD, Ornette Coleman, on alto and tenor, has a reunion with his original quartet, which is comprised of trumpeter Don Cherry, bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Billy Higgins. The second CD features Coleman's then-current edition of his "double quartet" Prime Time with guitarists ... see all copies from $23.00!
18	Ornette on Tenor (1962) more music like this by Ornette Coleman add to wishlist It's an understatement to say that Ornette Coleman's stint with Atlantic altered the jazz world forever, and Ornette on Tenor was the last of his six LPs (not counting outtakes compilations) for the label, wrapping up one of the most controversial and free-thinking series of recordings in jazz history. Actually, it's probably his least stunning ... see all copies from $4.31! new only from $9.00!
19	Free Jazz [Bonus Track] (1960) more music like this by Ornette Coleman Double Quartet add to wishlist 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 $9.00! new only from $9.00!
20	Song X (1985) more music like this by Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman add to wishlist 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 $6.48!
21	Introducing: Ornette Coleman (2006) more music like this by Ornette Coleman add to wishlist see all copies from $7.99! new only from $7.99!
22	Town Hall Concert 1962 (1962) more music like this by Ornette Coleman add to wishlist Ornette Coleman's decision to temporarily retire from music (this ESP disc was his only recording from a four-year period) was unfortunate. His alto playing was getting stronger, and on evidence of this CD, he had plenty of original ideas that should have been documented. For this Town Hall concert, Coleman debuts with his new trio (a unit that ... see all copies from $13.93! new only from $13.93!
23	To Whom Who Keeps a Record (1975) more music like this by Ornette Coleman add to wishlist see all copies from $14.66! new only from $14.66!
24	A Meeting of the Times/Ornette! (1999) more music like this by Rahsaan Roland Kirk & Al Hibbler/Ornette Coleman add to wishlist 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 $12.35! new only from $12.35!
25	Beauty Is a Rare Thing: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1993) more music like this by Ornette Coleman add to wishlist 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 $79.01! new only from $79.01!

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