Ornette Coleman - Beauty Is A Rare Thing : The Complete Atlantic Recordings [6 CD, 1993]

  

Beauty Is A Rare Thing contains Ornette Coleman's entire surviving recorded output for the Atlantic label from 1959-1961 (a number of other sessions were recorded, but they were destroyed, along with countless other priceless Atlantic masters, in their infamous warehouse fire of the mid-1970s.) It features over seven hours of music, six previously unreleased tracks, and contains a booklet of photos, a discography and contemporary commentaries by Ornette Coleman and a host of supporters and detractors.
  • Ornette Coleman (alto & tenor saxophones),
  • Eric Dolphy (alto saxophone, flute, bass clarinet),
  • Don Cherry (pocket trumpet, cornet),
  • Freddie Hubbard (trumpet),
  • Robert DiDomenica (flute),
  • The Contemporary String Quartet (strings),
  • Eddie Costa (vibraphone),
  • Bill Evans (piano),
  • Jim Hall (guitar),
  • Charlie Haden, Scott LaFaro, Jimmy Garrison, Alvin Brehm, George Duvivier (acoustic bass),
  • Billy Higgins, Ed Blackwell, Sticks Evans (drums)


CD1

01. Focus on Sanity
02. Chronology
03. Peace
04. Congeniality
05. Lonely Woman
06. Monk and the Nun
07. Just For You
08. Eventually
09. Una Muy Bonita
10. Bird Food
11. Change of the Century
12. Music Always


CD2

01. The Face of the Bass
02. Forerunner
03. Free
04. The Circle With a Hole in the Middle
05. Ramblin'
06. Little Symphony
07. The Tribes of New York - (previously unreleased)
08. Kaleidoscope
09. Rise and Shine - (previously unreleased)
10. Mr. And Mrs. People - (previously unreleased)
11. Blues Connotation
12. I Heard It Over the Radio - (previously unreleased)


CD3

01. P.S. Unless One Has (Blues Connotation No. 2)
02. Revolving Doors - (previously unreleased)
03. Brings Goodness
04. Joy of a Toy
05. To Us
06. Humpty Dumpty
07. The Fifth of Beethoven
08. Motive For Its Use
09. Moon Inhabitants
10. The Legend of BeBop
11. Some Other
12. Embraceable You
13. All


CD4

01. Folk Tale
02. Poise
03. Beauty Is a Rare Thing
04. First Take
05. Free Jazz


CD5

01. Proof Readers - (previously unreleased)
02. W.R.U.
03. Check Up
04. T. & T.
05. C. & D.
06. R.P.D.D.
07. The Alchemy of Scott LaFaro


CD6

01. Eos
02. Enfant
03. Ecars
04. Cross Breeding
05. Harlem's Manhattan
06. Mapa
07. Abstraction
08. Variants on a Theme of Thelonius Monk (Criss-Cross)



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