Prior to his 1961 masterpiece Free Jazz, Ornette Coleman's rhetoric overmatched his playing.Boasting impressive titles such as Something Else!!!, The Shape of Jazz to Come, 'Free,' 'The Face of the Bass,' and the title of this album, Change of the Century, Coleman knew he was onto something new.However, there is something in his early albums that is missing. The Ornette Coleman Legacy, featuring six songs originally released for the first time in 1993 as part of Rhino's CD boxed set Beauty Is A Rare Thing, making its HighResAudio debut. The albums featured in the set are: The Shape Of Jazz To Come (1959), Change Of The Century (1959), This Is Our Music (1960), Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation.

Ornette Coleman – Change of the Century (1959) [Remastered 2012]

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Ornette Coleman suggests in his liner notes for this 1960 release that “there is no single right way to play jazz.” He and this, his great quartet (with Don Cherry, pocket trumpet; Charlie Haden, bass; and Billy Higgins, drums), fully confirm that statement and dismiss the railings of Coleman’s detractors. This classic’s assurance and achievement fully justify its cocky title. In its free group improvising, as Coleman puts it, “each member goes his own way and still adds tellingly to the group endeavor.” The later formalization of that approach, as “harmolodics,” was from this point inevitable. The selections include tunes like “Ramblin’” and “Una Muy Bonita” that would be standards today if more musicians had deigned to venture down the paths that Coleman blazed

The second album by Ornette Coleman’s legendary quartet featuring Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Billy Higgins, Change of the Century is every bit the equal of the monumental The Shape of Jazz to Come, showcasing a group that was growing ever more confident in its revolutionary approach and the chemistry in the bandmembers’ interplay. When Coleman concentrates on melody, his main themes are catchier, and when the pieces emphasize group interaction, the improvisation is freer. Two of Coleman’s most memorable classic compositions are here in their original forms — “Ramblin’” has all the swing and swagger of the blues, and “Una Muy Bonita” is oddly disjointed, its theme stopping and starting in totally unexpected places; both secure their themes to stable, pedal-point bass figures. The more outside group improv pieces are frequently just as fascinating; “Free,” for example, features a double-tongued line that races up and down in free time before giving way to the ensemble’s totally spontaneous inventions. The title cut is a frantic, way-out mélange of cascading lines that nearly trip over themselves, brief stabs of notes in the lead voices, and jarringly angular intervals — it must have infuriated purists who couldn’t even stomach Coleman’s catchiest tunes. Coleman was frequently disparaged for not displaying the same mastery of instrumental technique and harmonic vocabulary as his predecessors, but his aesthetic prized feeling and expression above all that anyway. Maybe that’s why Change of the Century bursts with such tremendous urgency and exuberance — Coleman was hitting his stride and finally letting out all the ideas and emotions that had previously been constrained by tradition. That vitality makes it an absolutely essential purchase and, like The Shape of Jazz to Come, some of the most brilliant work of Coleman’s career. ~ AllMusic

COVER ART ONLY. LINER NOTES ARE NOT AVAILABLE.

Tracklist
01. Ramblin’ (00:06:37)
02. Free (00:06:21)
03. The Face Of The Bass (00:06:57)
04. Forerunner (00:05:15)
05. Bird Food (00:05:29)
06. Una Muy Bonita (00:06:00)
07. Change Of The Century (00:04:43)

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Twins is an album credited to jazz composer and saxophonist Ornette Coleman, released by Atlantic Records in 1971. The album was assembled without Coleman's input, comprising outtakes from recording sessions of 1959 to 1961 for The Shape of Jazz to Come, This Is Our Music, Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation, and Ornette! Sessions for 'Monk and the Nun' took place at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, California; for 'First Take' at A&R Studios in New York City, and all others at Atlantic Studios also in Manhattan. The track 'First Take' was a first attempt at 'Free Jazz' from the album of the same name.

Track listing[edit]

All compositions by Ornette Coleman.

Personnel[edit]

• Ornette Coleman – alto saxophone
• Don Cherry – pocket trumpet; corneton 'Monk and the Nun'
• Charlie Haden – basson 1959 and 1960 tracks
• Scott LaFaro – bass on 'First Take' and 'Check Up'
• Billy Higgins – drumson 'First Take' and 'Monk and the Nun'
• Ed Blackwell – drums on 1960 and 1961 tracks
• Freddie Hubbard – trumpeton 'First Take'
• Eric Dolphy – bass clarineton 'First Take'

References[edit]

1. ^Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 45. ISBN0-394-72643-X.
2. ^Cook, Richard (2004). The Penguin Guide to Jazz. USA: Penguin. p. 322.