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A 3CD anthology of Free / Avant-Garde jazz. The landmark albums included here in their entirety are Ornette Coleman's 'The Shape of Jazz to Come', 'Thesis' by The Jimmy Giuffre 3, John Coltrane's 'InchLiveInch at the Village Vanguard' (including the controversial 'Chasin' the Trane'), 'Warm Canto' by Eric Dolphy (his work on flute bass clarinet) and from the astonishing date of 1956, Cecil Taylor's 'Jazz Advance', the earliest recording of the new music. Featuring key works by the pioneers of the new music; the saxophonists Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Albert Ayler and Joe Harriott; the pianists Cecil Taylor and Sun Ra; and the multi-reed men Eric Dolphy and Jimmy Giuffre, whose minimalist abstractions for clarinet are in fascinating contrast to the labyrinthine, raga like lines of Coleman or Coltrane, Ayler's cries from the ghetto, or the Impressionist dissonances of Taylor. If, in the work of Joe Harriott, the flavour of calypso is implicit then similarly that alluring juxtaposition of antique Africa and the cosmos in the music of Sun Ra. Album Tracks 1. Lonely Woman-Ornette Coleman 2. Eventually-Ornette Coleman 3. Peace-Ornette Coleman 4. Focus on Sanity-Ornette Coleman 5. Congeniality-Ornette Coleman 6. Chronology-Ornette Coleman 7. Ictus- 8. That's True, That's True-Jimmy Giuffre 9. Sonic-Jimmy Giuffre 10. Whirrr-Jimmy Giuffre 11. Carla-Jimmy Giuffre 12. Goodbye-Jimmy Giuffre 13. Flight-Jimmy Giuffre 14. The Gamut-Jimmy Giuffre 15. Ancient Aiethopia-Sunra 1. Spiritual-John Coltrane -Eric Dolphy 2. Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise-John Coltrane -Eric Dolphy 3. Chasin' the Trane-John Coltrane 4. Naima (With John Coltrane)-Eric Dolphy 5. To Her Ladyship (With John Coltrane)-Eric Dolphy 6. Stolen Moments (With Oliver Nelson)-Eric Dolphy 7. Glad to Be Unhappy-Eric Dolphy 8. God Bless the Child-Eric Dolphy 9. Warm C
