Ornette Coleman - Original Album Series (5 CD, 2011/FLAC)

 

CD 1 - The Shape Of Jazz To Come

CD 2 - Change Of The Century

CD 3 - This Is Our Music

CD 4 - Free Jazz

CD 5 - Ornette!

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)