music.wikisort.org - CompositionFree Jazz: A Collective Improvisation is the sixth album by jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman, released on Atlantic Records in 1961, his fourth for the label. Its title established the name of the then-nascent free jazz movement. The recording session took place on December 21, 1960, at A&R Studios in New York City. The sole outtake from the album session, "First Take," was later released on the 1971 compilation Twins.
1961 studio album by Ornette Coleman
Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation |
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Released | September 1961 |
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Recorded | December 21, 1960 |
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Genre | Free jazz, Avant-garde jazz |
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Length | 37:10 |
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Label | Atlantic SD 1364 |
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Producer | Nesuhi Ertegün |
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Professional ratingsReview scores |
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Source | Rating |
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Down Beat |     [1] |
Allmusic |     [2] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz |    [3] |
Yahoo! Music | (favorable)[4] |
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide |     [5] |
Tom Hull | A−[6] |
The music
The music is a continuous free improvisation with only a few brief pre-determined sections. The music was recorded in one single “take” with no overdubbing or editing.[7]
The album features what Coleman called a “double quartet,” i.e., two self-contained jazz quartets, each with two wind instruments and each with a rhythm section consisting of bass and drums.[8] The two quartets are heard in separate channels with Coleman’s regular group in the left channel and the second quartet in the right.[9]
The two quartets play simultaneously with the two rhythm sections providing a dense rhythmic foundation over which the wind players either solo or provide freeform commentaries that often turn into full-scale collective improvisation interspersed with pre-determined composed passages. The composed thematic material can be considered a series of brief, dissonant fanfares for the horns which serve as interludes between solos. Not least among the album's achievements was that it was the first album-length improvisation, nearly forty minutes, which was unheard of at the time.
The original LP package incorporated Jackson Pollock's 1954 painting The White Light.[10] The cover was a gatefold with a cutout window in the lower right corner allowing a glimpse of the painting; opening the cover revealed the full artwork, along with liner notes by critic Martin Williams. Coleman was a fan of Pollock as well as a painter, and his 1966 LP The Empty Foxhole features Coleman's own artwork.[11][12]
Reception
In the January 18, 1962 issue of Down Beat magazine, in a special review titled "Double View of a Double Quartet," Pete Welding awarded the album Five Stars while John A. Tynan rated it No Stars.[9][13]
The album was identified by Chris Kelsey in his Allmusic essay "Free Jazz: A Subjective History" as one of the 20 Essential Free Jazz albums.[14] It served as the blueprint for later large-ensemble free jazz recordings such as Ascension by John Coltrane and Machine Gun by Peter Brötzmann.
On March 3, 1998, Free Jazz was reissued on compact disc by Rhino Records as part of its Atlantic 50 series. The "Free Jazz" track, split into two sections for each side of the LP, appeared here in continuous uninterrupted form, along with a bonus track of the previously issued "First Take."
Track listing of the original LP
Composition by Ornette Coleman. On compact disc "Free Jazz" is presented as one continuous track with a running time listed as 37:03.
Side one
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1. | "Free Jazz (Part One)" | 19:55 |
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Side two
Title |
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1. | "Free Jazz (Part Two)" | 16:28 |
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1998 reissue bonus track
Timing of the various sections
- 00:00 Polyphonic introduction
- 00:07 Ensemble introduction to Eric Dolphy
- 00:22 Eric Dolphy – bass clarinet solo (right channel)
- 05:12 Ensemble introduction to Freddie Hubbard
- 05:40 Freddie Hubbard – trumpet solo (right channel)
- 09:54 Ensemble introduction to Ornette Coleman
- 10:05 Ornette Coleman alto saxophone solo (left channel)
- 19:36 Ensemble Introduction to Don Cherry
- 19:48 Don Cherry – pocket trumpet solo (left channel)
- 25:21 Ensemble Introduction to Charlie Haden
- 25:26 Charlie Haden – bass solo (right channel)
- 29:51 Ensemble introduction to Scott LaFaro
- 30:00 Scott LaFaro – bass solo (left channel)
- 33:47 Polyphonic ensemble introduction to Ed Blackwell
- 34:00 Ed Blackwell – drum solo (right channel)
- 35:19 Ensemble pitch introduction to Billy Higgins
- 35:28 Billy Higgins – drum solo (left channel)
Personnel
- Left channel
- Ornette Coleman – alto saxophone
- Don Cherry – pocket trumpet
- Scott LaFaro – bass
- Billy Higgins – drums
- Right channel
Production
- Tom Dowd – recording engineer
- Nesuhi Ertegün – producer
References
- Down Beat: January 18, 1962 vol. 29, no. 2
- Allmusic Review
- Richard Cook and Brian Morton, The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, 7th ed. (Penguin, 2004), p. 322.
- Yahoo! Music review
- Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 45. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
- Hull, Tom (n.d.). "Jazz (1940–50s) (Reference)". tomhull.com. Retrieved March 4, 2020.
- Liner notes to Atlantic Records album 1364.
- Bailey, C. Michael (September 30, 2011). "Ornette Coleman: Free Jazz". All About Jazz. Retrieved March 9, 2020.
- "Happy 55th: Ornette Coleman, Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation". Rhino. December 21, 2015. Retrieved March 9, 2020.
- Jazz: A Film By Ken Burns, Episode 9, 2001.
- Borgerson, Janet (2017). Designed for hi-fi living : the vinyl LP in midcentury America. Schroeder, Jonathan E., 1962-, Miller, Daniel, 1954-. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. p. 90. ISBN 9780262036238. OCLC 958205262.
- "Ornette Coleman and Jackson Pollock: Black Music, White Light |". federaljazzpolicy.com. Retrieved 2017-09-20.
- Down Beat: January 18, 1962 vol. 29, no. 2
- Kelsey, C. Free Jazz: A Subjective History accessed December 7, 2009[dead link]
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- Windjammer (1976)
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- Super Blue (1978)
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- The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4 (with Terry, Gillespie & Peterson, 1980)
- Born to Be Blue (1981)
- Keystone Bop: Sunday Night (1981)
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- Rollin' (1981)
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- Above & Beyond (1982)
- Back to Birdland (1982)
- Face to Face (with Oscar Peterson, 1982)
- Ride Like the Wind (1982)
- The Rose Tattoo (1983)
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- Feel the Wind (with Art Blakey, 1988)
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- Topsy – Standard Book (1989)
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- At Jazz Jamboree Warszawa '91: A Tribute to Miles (1991)
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- On the Real Side (2007)
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- The Soul of the City (Manny Albam, 1966)
- The Other Side of Abbey Road (George Benson, 1969)
- Out of This World (Walter Benton, 1960)
- True Blue (Tina Brooks, 1960)
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- Cables' Vision (George Cables, 1979)
- Droppin' Things (Betty Carter, 1990)
- Free Jazz (Ornette Coleman, 1960)
- Olé Coltrane (John Coltrane, 1961)
- Africa/Brass (John Coltrane, 1961)
- Ascension (John Coltrane, 1965)
- Muses for Richard Davis (1969)
- Outward Bound (Eric Dolphy, 1960)
- Out to Lunch! (Eric Dolphy, 1964)
- Undercurrent (Kenny Drew, 1960)
- Leaving This Planet (Charles Earland, 1973)
- Booker 'n' Brass (Booker Ervin, 1967)
- Interplay (Bill Evans, 1962)
- Sonic Text (Joe Farrell, 1979)
- Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone (Curtis Fuller, 1960)
- Soul Trombone (Curtis Fuller, 1961)
- Cabin in the Sky (Curtis Fuller, 1962)
- Take a Number from 1 to 10 (Benny Golson, 1961)
- Pop + Jazz = Swing (Benny Golson, 1962)
- Slide Hampton and His Horn of Plenty (1959)
- Sister Salvation (Slide Hampton, 1960)
- Drum Suite (Slide Hampton, 1962)
- The Quota (Jimmy Heath, 1961)
- Triple Threat (Jimmy Heath, 1962)
- Big Band (Joe Henderson, 1996)
- Pax (Andrew Hill, 1965)
- Compulsion (Andrew Hill, 1965)
- Sunflower (Milt Jackson, 1972)
- Goodbye (Milt Jackson, 1973)
- 52nd Street (Billy Joel, 1978)
- Reg Strikes Back (Elton John, 1988)
- J.J. Inc. (J.J. Johnson, 1960)
- Echoes of an Era (Chaka Khan, 1982)
- Essence (John Lewis, 1960–62)
- Water Sign (Jeff Lorber, 1979)
- Doin' the Thang! (Ronnie Mathews, 1963)
- Bluesnik (Jackie McLean, 1961)
- MJQ & Friends: A 40th Anniversary Celebration (Modern Jazz Quartet, 1994)
- Fingerpickin' (Wes Montgomery, 1958)
- Roll Call (Hank Mobley, 1960)
- The Blues and the Abstract Truth (Oliver Nelson, 1961)
- Sweet Honey Bee (Duke Pearson, 1966)
- The Right Touch (Duke Pearson, 1967)
- Contours (Sam Rivers, 1965)
- Drums Unlimited (Max Roach, 1965)
- East Broadway Run Down (Sonny Rollins, 1966)
- Numbers (Rufus, 1978)
- Once a Thief and Other Themes (Lalo Schifrin, 1965)
- Giant Box (Don Sebesky, 1973)
- Sugar (Stanley Turrentine, 1970)
- Together (McCoy Tyner, 1978)
- Quartets 4 X 4 (McCoy Tyner, 1980)
- Soundscapes (Cedar Walton, 1980)
- Uhuru Afrika (Randy Weston, 1960)
- Blue Moses (Randy Weston, 1972)
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Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation ist ein Jazz-Album von Ornette Coleman, nach dem letztlich ein ganzes Genre des Jazz, der Free Jazz, benannt wurde. Das Album wurde am 21. Dezember 1960 von Tom Dowd in New York City aufgenommen und im September 1961 von Atlantic Records veröffentlicht.
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