Groundbreaking jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman was born today in 1930. Happy 79th and here’s to many more!
Ornette Coleman Playlist #1
Lonely Woman from “The Shape of Jazz To Come” – 1959
Check Up from “Twins” – Recorded 1961, released 1971
Endless from “Tomorrow Is The Question!” – 1959
Cross Breeding from “Ornette on Tenor” – 1961
Matador from “Sound Grammar” – 2006
Airborne from “Love Call” – 1968
Ornette Coleman – Lonely Woman
Ornette Coleman – Tomorrow Is The Question!
Ornette Coleman – Endless
From “Tomorrow Is The Question” : 1959 : Contemporary Records
This is early Ornette Coleman, recorded for the Contemporary Records label in 1959. It firmly sets in place the path Coleman would follow only a few years later on his genre bending albums for Atlantic Records.
Players:
Ornette Coleman – Alto Sax
Don Cherry – Trumpet
Red Mitchell – Bass
Shelly Manne – Drums
