This Is Our Music

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Alto sax player Ornette Coleman released six highly influential (not to mention controversial) albums on Atlantic between 1958-61, which changed the direction of jazz. This was their third of the series and the first to have Ed Blackwell on drums. It continued tearing up the rulebook and instead of Coleman's and pocket trumpeter Don Cherry playing solos using chordal improvisation they just played freely where the mood took them. This was the birth of free jazz. In actual fact with the hindsight of what was to follow the revolutionary nature of the music may have been lost (in all the tracks a tune is quite evident!). However what has not faded over time is the total nerve tingling hair raising brilliance of them. The whole quartet (the last member being one of the greatest bassist's of all time, Charlie Haden) simply burn with passion. One of the tracks is "Beauty is a rare thing", it is indeed, and this is it. --Phil Brett

Actors: Ornette Coleman

Number of Discs: 1

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