Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation
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| Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation | ||
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| Studio album by Ornette Coleman | ||
| Released | 1961 | |
| Recorded | December 21, 1960 | |
| Genre | Free jazz | |
| Length | 54:12 | |
| Label | Atlantic | |
| Producer(s) | Nesuhi Ertegun | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| Ornette Coleman chronology | ||
| This Is Our Music (1960) |
Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (1961) |
Ornette! (1961) |
Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation is an album by jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman, recorded in 1960. It involves two separate quartets, one to each stereo channel; the rhythm sections play simultaneously, and though there is a succession of solos as is usual in jazz, they are peppered with freeform commentaries by the other horns that often turn into full-scale collective improvisation. The pre-composed material is a series of brief, dissonant fanfares for the horns which serve as interludes between solos. Not least among the album's achievements was that it was the first LP-length improvisation, nearly forty minutes in length, which was unheard of at the time. It thus served as the blueprint for later large-ensemble free jazz recordings such as John Coltrane's Ascension and Peter Brötzmann's Machine Gun.
Contents |
[edit] Track listing
- "Free Jazz" - 37:10
- "First Take" - 17:02 (included on some reissues)
[edit] Personnel
[edit] Left channel
- Ornette Coleman - alto saxophone
- Don Cherry - pocket trumpet
- Scott LaFaro - bass
- Billy Higgins - drums
[edit] Right channel
- Freddie Hubbard - trumpet
- Eric Dolphy - bass clarinet
- Charlie Haden - bass
- Ed Blackwell - drums
