Ornette Coleman - Art of Improvisers

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Genre: Jazz

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originally released in 1970-2005 US repressed on High Definition Premium 180gram VIRGIN VINYL= A compilation album credited to jazz composer and saxophonist Ornette Coleman, released by Atlantic Records in 1970. The album was assembled without Colema...
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Release date: 02-10-2005(originally released in 1970)

2005 US repressed on High Definition Premium 180gram VIRGIN VINYL= A compilation album credited to jazz composer and saxophonist Ornette Coleman, released by Atlantic Records in 1970. The album was assembled without Coleman's input, comprising outtakes from recording sessions of 1959 to 1961 for The Shape of Jazz to Come, Change of the Century, This Is Our Music, Ornette!, and Ornette on Tenor

Tracks:
A1 The Circle With A Hole In The Middle
A2 Just For You
A3 The Fifth Of Beethoven
A4 The Alchemy Of Scott La Faro 

B1 Moon Inhabitants
B2 The Legend Of Bebop
B3 Harlem's Manhattan

Like many of Ornette Coleman's Atlantic sides, Art of the Improvisers was recorded in numerous sessions from 1959-1961 and assembled for the purpose of creating a cohesive recorded statement. Its opening track, 'The Circle With the Hole in the Middle,' from 1959, with the classic quartet of Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell, and Charlie Haden, is one of Coleman's recognizable pieces of music. Essentially, the band is that quartet with two very notable exceptions: The last tracks on each side feature a different bass player. On the end of side one, the late, great Scott La Faro weighs in on 'The Alchemy of Scott La Faro,' and Jimmy Garrison weighs in on 'Harlem's Manhattan' to close the album out. These last two sessions were recorded early in 1961, in January and March respectively.

As an album, Art of the Improvisers is usually undervalued when placed next to This Is Our Music or The Shape of Jazz to Come. This is a mistake in that some of Coleman's most deeply lyrical harmonic structures reside here in tracks such as 'Just for You,' with literally stunning intervallic interplay between him and Cherry from the middle to the end. The track also messes with standard blues form and comes up in a modal way without seemingly intending to. The set roars into 'The Fifth of Beethoven,' which collapses a series of flatted fifths around Haden and Cherry, and Coleman goes on a Texas blues spree in his solo, dancing all around them. 'The Alchemy of Scott La Faro' must have pissed off the hard boppers like nothing else. Here is a straining sprint that the quartet takes in stride as La Faro and Blackwell charge around the edges in frightening time signatures. Coleman and Cherry for the most part clamor around a B flat-C sharp major figure and run circles around each other in muscular fashion as La Faro goes pizzicato to head with Coleman in the middle, turning the saxophonist's phrases into rhythmic structures which Blackwell accents as if cued. But he's not; this is invented on the spot. Coleman's deep lyricism shines through despite the tempo, and the entire thing goes out in a blaze of light. 'The Legend of Bebop' is a jazz history lesson with the band working out on the front line, quoting from Sidney Bechet and Louis Armstrong, moving through some Ellington-ian themes, and slipping around the corner to a slow, blued-out bebop before taking off in consonant solos and counterpoint. 'Harlem's Manhattan,' with Garrison in Haden's bass chair, begins with a quote right from Parker and Gillespie before challenging the framework of the blues and its tempos. Blackwell is a blur of the dance, his cymbal work against Garrison's punctuated accents make Coleman's and Cherry's jobs knotty and difficult, but always rooted in the melody that blues inspires. This is basically one of Coleman's most up-tempo records for Atlantic, but also one of his most soulful. It deserves serious re-evaluation.


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