Ornette Coleman – To Whom Who Keeps A Record
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The performances on To Whom Who Keeps A Record represent a visionary improviser and outsider composer’s slender ensemble at its peak power: Coleman on alto, Don Cherry on trumpet, Charlie Haden on bass; Billy Higgins played drums at the October ’59 session in Hollywood, then Ed Blackwell takes over by the July ’60 sessions.
The tracks are fantastic, and while they appear on the Atlantic masters compilation Beauty Is A Rare Thing, they have never been available on vinyl outside of Japan until this present reissue by the tastefully curated SF reissue label, Superior Viaduct. So many of Coleman’s albums have a futurist presentation, and the nature of his music making often seems antithetical to keeping a record at all. The two-tiered reissue at play here is curious… Imagine Ornette in1975, revisiting a distant musical identity from his past (if only briefly to work on a foreign release) and performing some self-curating with 15 years of hindsight.
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Artist: Ornette ColemanLabel: Superior ViaductFormat: LPUnits: 1Country: USGenre: JazzStyle: Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Jazz
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A1 Music Always
A2 Brings Goodness
A3 To Us
A4 All
B1 P.S. Unless One Has (Blues Connotation No. 2)
B2 Some Other
B3 Motive For Its Use