Ornette Coleman - Ornette on Tenor - VINYL LP

Modern improvisational jazz starts here. With one quartet placed in the left stereo channel and another situated in the right, Free Jazz unloads with two simultaneously playing rhythm sections and a 37-minute-plus title cut devised entirely on the spot. Distinctive from the copycat attempts that followed, this 1960 magnum opus claims melody and harmony, solidifying Ornette Coleman?s reputation as a compositional genius. Of course, the presence of Don Cherry, Scott LaFaro, Billy Higgins in the left channel and Coleman, Freddie Hubbard, Charlie Haden, and Ed Blackwell in the right doesn't hurt.Mastered from the original master tapes, ORG Music's analog edition has turned this classic into an audiophile spectacular. Due to the presentation of the recording in two distinct stereo channels, this album supremely benefits from the tag's mastering efforts and decision to expand the music into wider grooves. Prepare for a mind-blowing experience.

The term 'free jazz' was already in existence - but it had a quite different meaning, namely jazz without paying for an entrance ticket. The album InchFree JazzInch, however, was intended to lend it's name to a quite different style of jazz. 'Free' playing - now this meant that no one was bound to conventions, you could let your imagination run loose. Free jazz gave one the chance to find new rules for every new composition. And it was to be the greatest boost to innovation in the world of jazz. Ornette Coleman's album from December 1960 stands at the beginning of the free jazz era like a massive portal. Coleman thought big he brought two quartets into the studio at the same time, both with two wind instruments and no piano, and let them play together for 36 minutes without a break - a collective improvisation. There aren't any precise themes, although short, fanfare-like motifs do exist in which the winds come together. A continuous dense rhythmic beat underlies the music almost throughout - and the pulse is felt rather than heard. One musician after the other comes into the foreground to improvise, almost like at a jam session. First Coleman, then Dolphy, then the two trumpeters. The other winds, however, never remain silent, then make comments and support one another continually - the energy level is immense the whole time (it was cold in the studio... ). Only when it is the turn of the bass and drum players do the winds remain silent for about eleven minutes. This album is not only a historic caesura, but a truly great experience over and over again. This Speakers Corner reissue LP was remastered using pure analogue components only, from the master tapes through to the cutting head. More information under Pure-analogue. #com. All royalties and mechanical rights have been paid. Recording December 1961 in A&R Studios, New York City, by Tom DowdProduction Nesuhi

Ornette Coleman - An Evening With Ornette Coleman, Vol. 1 [VINYL LP] 180 Gram date 11/24/2016