ORNETTE COLEMAN — Free Jazz (review)

ORNETTE COLEMAN — Free Jazz album cover Album · 1961 · Avant-Garde Jazz Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
smartpatrol
Free Jazz had been recorded and released before, but this is where the name of the genre came from. And I son't think there is a better album that gives an example of Free Jazz. This certain album is by two quartets, one on each channel. One the left we have Ornette Coleman on bass clarinette, Don Cherry on pocket trumpet, Scott LaFaro on up-right bass, and Billy Higgins and drums. On the right we have Eric Dolphy on bass clarinet, Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Charlie Hadden on up-right bass, and Ed Blackwell on drums. Both rhythm secons play in together in the same time signature, while the horns improve ontop of them, making a wild and crazy thirty-seven minute surreal soundscape.

I usualy list my favorite tracks from the album at this point, but there is only one on the album.

Free Jazz is, in my opinion, the exemplar Free Jazz album that inspired a genre and a whole new batch of musicians. However, for some, it is definatley an aquired taste. Three and a half stars.

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