Ornette Coleman

Ornette Coleman's loft at 131 Prince Street, Valentine's Day 1970. Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Ed Blackwell, and whoever was in the room singing the title chant. The only Coleman album on Flying Dutchman: six pieces, Ornette on alto, trumpet and violin, taped as a party rather than a concert.

1977 Japanese re-issue on Blue Note's "Immortal Masterpieces 1800 Series" of the 1966 live album. With insert.

1970's US re-issue on Atlantic with laminated and die-cut gatefold sleeve with embossed blue stereo, of the 1961 album featuring Don Cherry, Eric Dolphy, Charlie Haden, Freddie Hubbard and Ed Blackwell. With original innersleeve.

1974 US re-issue on Atlantic with un-laminated and no die-cut gatefold sleeve of the 1961 album featuring Don Cherry, Eric Dolphy, Charlie Haden, Freddie Hubbard and Ed Blackwell. With original innersleeve.

1986 US re-issue on Atlantic's "Jazzlore" series of the 1962 album featuring Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell.

1990's US re-issue on Atlantic of the 1970 album recorded in 1959/1961 featuring Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell.

1981 US re-issue on Atlantic's "Jazzlore" series of the 1971 album with recordings from 1959/1960 featuring Don Cherry, Eric Dolphy, Charlie Haden, Freddie Hubbard and Ed Blackwell.

Original Japanese edition on Polydor of the 1968 double-album recorded in 1965.

1979 Japanese re-issue on Freedom/Trio's "Giants Of Jazz 1500" series of the 1972 live album. With insert and obi.

1979 Japanese re-issue on Freedom/Trio's "Giants Of Jazz 1500" series of the 1972 live album. With insert.

Original Japanese edition on Trio of the 1979 album with the first part of the soundtrack to the 1966 film. With insert and obi.

Rare 1994 Japan-only 2CD set with the full recording of the 1966 soundtrack to the Thomas White film. With inserts.

1996 release (light wear) ** 1965: Conrad Rooks commissions Ornette Coleman to score his film Chappaqua, then declines to use the music - reportedly because it was too beautiful and would overwhelm the images, which may be the most flattering rejection in the history of commissioned art. The unused score, with Pharoah Sanders in the ensemble and orchestral textures surrounding the trio, became this sprawling four-part suite: Ornette at his most expansive, the alto soaring and grieving over mass…

Sole edition of the 1983 French LP on Musidisc's "Jazz Anthology" series with recordings from the early 1960's featuring Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell.

** Special Time-Limited Offer ** On April 29 and May 7, 1968, iconoclastic saxophonist Ornette Coleman brought a dynamic quartet with tenor saxophonist Dewey Redman, bassist Jimmy Garrison, and drummer Elvin Jones into the studio to record what would yield his final two albums for Blue Note: New York Is Now! and Love Call. The alchemy of this group, which combined Coleman’s first-time two-saxophone pairing with a rhythm team deeply associated with John Coltrane, produced thrilling results.UHQ-CD…

This was definitely a perfect title for Ornette Coleman's second and last album for Contemporary before switching on Ertegun's Atlantic label. Originally released in 1959 "Tomorrow is the Question" was an early evident step towards the revolution to come. An adventurous yet accessible, bluesy album with Coleman and Don Cherry tasting for the first time the freedom of a pianoless rhythm section featuring Percy Heath or Red Mitchell on bass and the great Shelly Manne on drums.

Ornette Coleman’s "Ornette On Tenor" marks a pivotal moment in jazz, featuring his switch to tenor sax and the addition of Jimmy Garrison on bass. The album’s earthy, darker soundscape, collective improvisation, and absence of fixed themes highlight Coleman’s ongoing musical revolution.

2013 release ** "UK collection that focuses on Flying Dutchman Records, a Jazz label started by Bob Thiele. Liberation Music looks at the label's first five years, through it's Jazz and spoken word releases. This exciting and revolutionary label was launched in 1969 by producer Thiele, after he left the Impulse label where he produced John Coltrane. Featuring: Angela Davis, Gil Scott-Heron, Lonnie Liston Smith, The Esoteric Circle, Black And Blues, Louis Armstrong, Bob Thiele Emergency, Carl B S…

** Rare original copies, unplayed. Unofficial release and very rare to find. Minor wear due to ageing on covers ** In Concert captures Ornette Coleman at a thrilling crossroads, performing live in Padua with a quartet that brilliantly embodies his restless creative spirit. Alongside Coleman-who alternates between alto sax, trumpet, and violin-are James “Blood” Ulmer on guitar, Sirone (Norris Jones) on bass, and Billy Higgins on drums. This lineup, recorded in 1974, marks a period where Coleman w…

Tip! Science Fiction is an album by the American avant-garde jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman, released in February 1972. It is considered as Coleman's creative rebirth. A stunningly inventive and appropriately alien-sounding blast of manic energy, where Coleman combines his past and future, working with bassist Charlie Haden and drummers Billy Higgins and Ed Blackwell. The album is made up of spacy, long-toned melodies and rhythm, including two songs with Indian vocalist Asha Puthl…