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Ornette Coleman Quintet: Complete Live At The Hillcrest Club (CD: Gambit)Ornette Coleman Quintet: Complete Live At The Hillcrest Club (CD: Gambit)
The complete performance on a single CD for the first time. These concerts are the only known recorded works of Paul Bley with Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry or Billy Higgins, both separately and as a unit. Even though it may not have been a regular unit or a stylistically defined group, the quintet heard on these historic Hillcrest recordings shows a highly creative level, and transmits a contagious excitement and a continuous search for new musical ideas and new ways to express themselves that makes this music as impressive today as it was when it was first performed nearly fifty years ago. (Absolute Distribution) 


Price:  £10.99 


Ornette Coleman: Tomorrow Is The Question (CD: Contemporary- US Import)
This is Ornette's second Contemporary album, recorded a year after his debut Something Else!!!!, again featuring Don Cherry but substituting the "house" rhythm section of Shelly Manne and Red Mitchell for Billy Higgins and Don Payne.

Albums followed on Atlantic, Blue Note, ESP, and Horizon. Ornette's "accessibility" remains a record company concern–a 1988 Portrait release was touted by the label as his "most accessible." But his music was accessible enough 40 years ago for Contemporary's Les Koenig to have launched Coleman's enduring and distinguished recording career. (Fantasy, Inc.) 


Price:  £15.49 

Ornette Coleman: Tomorrow Is The Question (CD: Contemporary- US Import)


Ornette Coleman: The Shape Of Jazz To Come (CD: Atlantic)Ornette Coleman: The Shape Of Jazz To Come (CD: Atlantic)
One of the first recordings Ornette made for Atlantic, featuring his classic quartet lineup of Don Cherry, Charlie Haden & Billy Higgins. Challenging, emotional and (at the time) widely mis-understood music that changed the way jazz was played and listened to, this record includes the glorious 'Lonely Woman', a Coleman classic.

A BEBOP SHOP MILESTONE- An essential recording for your jazz CD shelf 


Price:  £9.99 


Ornette Coleman: Change Of The Century (CD: Atlantic)
 


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Ornette Coleman: Change Of The Century (CD: Atlantic)


Ornette Coleman: Ornette On Tenor (CD: Atlantic)Ornette Coleman: Ornette On Tenor (CD: Atlantic)
 


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Ornette Coleman: Ornette! (CD: Atlantic)
 


Price:  £9.99 

Ornette Coleman: Ornette! (CD: Atlantic)


Ornette Coleman: This Is Our Music (CD: Atlantic)Ornette Coleman: This Is Our Music (CD: Atlantic)
 


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Ornette Coleman: Twins (CD: Atlantic)
Recorded between 1959 and 1961, just before Coleman disbanded his quartet and left Atlantic, these sessions, which remained unreleased until 1971, feature cornettist Don Cherry, Charlie Haden / Scott LaFaro on bass and Ed Blackwell / Billy Higgins on drums, and include gems like ‘First Take’ (the warm-up to ‘Free Jazz’ with clarinettist Eric Dolphy and trumpeter Freddie Hubbard). An indispensable post-script to the most important period of Coleman’s career. (Warner Jazz) 


Price:  £9.99 

Ornette Coleman: Twins (CD: Atlantic)


Ornette Coleman: Free Jazz (CD: Atlantic)Ornette Coleman: Free Jazz (CD: Atlantic)
Ground-breaking album which helped to change the course of jazz forever. A double quartet featuring Don Cherry, Freddie Hubbard and Eric Dolphy.

'It's gestural music, spashing instrumental colour about with a total indifference to accurate figuration...superb' (The Penguin Guide To Jazz) 


Price:  £9.99 


Ornette Coleman. Don Cherry, Jimmy Giuffre & Kenny Dorham: The Lenox Jazz School Concert August 1959 (CD: Free Factory)
For the first time on CD, an amazing 1959 concert featuring Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Jimmy Giuffre and Kenny Dorham - a meeting of some of the best stars of modern & free jazz. Also featured are Gunther Schuller, Ran Blake, Gary Mcfarland, Ian Underwood and Attila Zoller.

The Lenox School of Jazz was a summer program in Lenox, Massachusetts founded by John Lewis and held from 1957 to 1960. It was one of the first instances where the world's greatest jazz musicians were enlisted as faculty and where jazz was taught to promising young musicians.

This release presents the rare and long unavailable 1959 Lenox Annual Benefit Concert - and as a bonus, an extremely rare quartet set by Kenny Dorham (who was one of the mentors at the Lenox School) - recorded live in Norway with local musicians in January 1964. (Discovery Records) 


Price:  £12.99 

Ornette Coleman. Don Cherry, Jimmy Giuffre & Kenny Dorham: The Lenox Jazz School Concert August 1959 (CD: Free Factory)


Ornette Coleman: Town Hall, 1962 (CD: ESP DISK)Ornette Coleman: Town Hall, 1962 (CD: ESP DISK)
 


Price:  £13.99 


Ornette Coleman: Croydon Concert (CD: Free Factory)
On CD for the first time ever, the complete and long unavailable Ornette Coleman concert at Fairfield Hall, Croydon, on August 29, 1965 - which includes a long chamber work written by Coleman as well as seven inimitable performances by Ornette and his classic trio with David Izenzon and Charles Moffett.

It immediately follows the “Chappaqua Suite” sessions in Ornette’s discography, and has the particularity of presenting both a set by Coleman’s spectacular trio and a performance of “Forms and Sound for Wind Quintet” – a ten-movement chamber suite composed by the saxophonist, but performed by the Virtuoso Ensemble, of which this seems to be the only existing recording. (Discovery Records) 


Price:  £12.99 

Ornette Coleman: Croydon Concert (CD: Free Factory)


Ornette Coleman: New York Is Now (CD: Blue Note- US Import)Ornette Coleman: New York Is Now (CD: Blue Note- US Import)
 


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Ornette Coleman: The Paris Concerts 1965-1966 (CD: Gambit)
Two long unavailable Paris performances by Ornette Coleman’s great trio with David Izenzon (bass) and Charles Moffett (drums). The first, recorded at the Salle de la Mutualité, on November 4, 1965 (the group performed and recorded at the famous Golden Circle in December of that same year). The second, a radio broadcast, from February 1966, appears here on CD for the first time ever. (Discovery Records) 


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Ornette Coleman: The Paris Concerts 1965-1966 (CD: Gambit)


Ornette Coleman: Live At The Golden Circle, Vol.1 (CD: Blue Note RVG)Ornette Coleman: Live At The Golden Circle, Vol.1 (CD: Blue Note RVG)
 


Price:  £8.99 


Ornette Coleman: Live At The Golden Circle, Vol.2 (CD: Blue Note RVG)
 


Price:  £8.99 

Ornette Coleman: Live At The Golden Circle, Vol.2 (CD: Blue Note RVG)


Ornette Coleman Quartet: The Love Revolution (CD: Gambit, 2 CDs)Ornette Coleman Quartet: The Love Revolution (CD: Gambit, 2 CDs)
Complete 1968 Italian Tour. 


Price:  £16.99 


Ornette Coleman Quartet: Belgium 1969 (CD: Gambit)
A very rare, long-unavailable Ornette Coleman concert - recorded at the Bilzen Festival, Belgium on August 24, 1969. 


Price:  £10.99 

Ornette Coleman Quartet: Belgium 1969 (CD: Gambit)


Ornette Coleman Quartet: Live In Paris 1971 (CD: Jazz Row)Ornette Coleman Quartet: Live In Paris 1971 (CD: Jazz Row)
The splendid, rare 1971 concert included on this CD presents Ornette Coleman with his celebrated quartet was recorded Live in Paris, in November 1971. This music appears for the first time ever on CD and with splendid sound quality. (Discovery Records) 


Price:  £11.99 


Ornette Coleman: The Skies Of America (CD: Columbia)
 


Price:  £13.99 

Ornette Coleman: The Skies Of America (CD: Columbia)


Ornette Coleman: The Complete Science Fiction Sessions (CD: Columbia, 2 CDs- US Import)Ornette Coleman: The Complete Science Fiction Sessions (CD: Columbia, 2 CDs- US Import)
 


Price:  £21.99 


Ornette Coleman: Sound Museum- Three Women (CD: Harmolodic/ Verve- US Import)
 


Price:  £14.99 

Ornette Coleman: Sound Museum- Three Women (CD: Harmolodic/ Verve- US Import)


Ornette Coleman: Sound Museum- Hidden Man (CD: Harmolodic/ Verve- US Import)Ornette Coleman: Sound Museum- Hidden Man (CD: Harmolodic/ Verve- US Import)
 


Price:  £14.99 


Ornette Coleman: Sound Grammar (CD: Sound Grammar)
 


Price:  £13.99 

Ornette Coleman: Sound Grammar (CD: Sound Grammar)

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