Ornette Coleman - Atlantic Years (180 Gram Vinyl)

Limited ten 180gm vinyl LP set. Ornette Coleman recorded one of the greatest bodies of work in jazz during a 22-month-long burst of creativity. Between 1959 and 1961, the saxophonist and composer released six studio albums on Atlantic Records that helped usher in the avant-garde, free jazz movement. Those albums, along more than two hours of session outtakes, are featured together in the 10-LP boxed set featuring newly remastered audio by John Webber at AIR Studios. Several of these titles are long out-of-print on vinyl. 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 it's vinyl debut. Among the albums included in The Atlantic Years are three compilations that Atlantic released in the 1970's: The Art Of Improvisers (1970), Twins (1971), and To Whom Who Keeps A Record (1975.) These albums include outtakes from recording sessions for all six of Coleman's studio albums.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. LP 1 - Lonely Woman
2. Eventually
3. Peace
4. Focus on Sanity
5. Congeniality
6. Chronology

Disc: 2

1. LP 2 - Ramblin'
2. Free
3. The Face of the Bass
4. Forerunner
5. Bird Food
6. Una Muy Bonita
7. 7 Change of the Century

Disc: 3

1. LP 3 - P.S. Unless One Has (Blues Connotation)
2. Beauty Is a Rare Thing
3. Kaleidoscope
4. Embraceable You
5. Poise
6. Humpty Dumpty
7. Folk Tale

Disc: 4

1. LP 4 - Free Jazz (Part 1)
2. Free Jazz-Part 2

Disc: 5

1. LP 5 - W.R.U. (Remastered Version)
2. T ; T (Remastered Version)
3. C. ; D. (Remastered Version)
4. R.P.D.D (Remastered Version)

Disc: 6

1. LP 6 - Cross Breeding
2. Mapa
3. Enfant
4. Eos
5. Ecars

Disc: 7

1. LP 7 - the Circle with a Hole in the Middle
2. Just for You
3. The Fifth of Beethoven
4. The Alchemy of Scott Lafaro
5. Moon Inhabitants
6. The Legend of Bebop
7. Harlem's Manhattan

Disc: 8

1. LP 8 - First Take
2. Little Symphony
3. Monk and the Nun
4. Check Up
5. Joy of a Toy

Disc: 9

1. LP 9 - Music Always
2. Brings Goodness
3. To Us
4. All
5. P.S. Unless One Has (Blues Connotation No. 2)
6. Some Other
7. Motive for It's Use

Disc: 10

1. LP 10 - Rise and Shine
2. The Tribes of New York
3. I Heard It Over the Radio
4. Revolving Doors
5. Mr. And Mrs. People
6. Proof Readers