condition (record/cover): NM / NM

Insert and obi included.

1966: Ornette Coleman's trio with David Izenzon and Charles Moffett improvising a full film score - the soundtrack to the experimental feature Who's Crazy?, recorded in Europe with the images rolling and the music answering them in real time, a working method that suited Ornette's instincts perfectly: total spontaneity in service of a larger form. The result is the 1965-66 trio in its loosest documented state: cues, fragments, sudden long flights, Ornette rotating through violin and trumpet as well as the alto, the whole workshop thrown open with nothing tidied for posterity. Film scores were one of the few contexts where the era's revolutionaries could experiment on someone else's budget, and the soundtrack corner of the Ornette discography - this, Chappaqua Suite - is small, strange and precious.

Japanese Trio pressings like this one are the collector's route in, and they surface rarely. Fascinating, freewheeling, and genuinely scarce in the racks.