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Ornette Coleman Double Quartet- Free Jazz [Colored Vinyl] [Limited Edition] [180 Gram] (Wht) (Hol)

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the album cover for Ornette Coleman  Double Quartet - Free Jazz [Colored Vinyl] [Limited Edition] [180 Gram] (Wht) (Hol)

Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies on white coloured 180-gram audiophile vinyl. Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation is a studio album by American jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman, released in September 1961. The recording session took place on December 21, 1960, at A&R Studios in New York City. The album is named after the then-nascent free jazz movement. The music is a continuous free improvisation with only a few brief pre-determined sections, recorded in one take with no overdubbing or editing. The album features what Coleman called a "double quartet, " i.e., two self-contained jazz quartets: each with a reed instrument, trumpet, bass, and drums. The two quartets are heard in separate channels, with Coleman's working quartet at the time in the left channel, and the second quartet, including the former Coleman rhythm section of Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell, on the right. The two quartets play simultaneously. Free Jazz was the first album-length improvisation at thirty-seven minutes, unheard of at the time. The original LP package incorporated Jackson Pollock's 1954 painting The White Light. The cover is a gatefold with a cutout window in the lower right corner allowing a glimpse of the painting; opening the cover revealed the full artwork, along with liner notes by critic Martin Williams.

Tracklist:

  1. Free Jazz (Part 1) [19:55]
  2. Free Jazz (Part 2) [16:28]

UPC > 8719262040656

Format > New Vinyl

Label > Music On Vinyl

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Ornette Coleman Double Quartet- Free Jazz [Colored Vinyl] [Limited Edition] [180 Gram] (Wht) (Hol)

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Release Date: 11.21.2025

 
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Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies on white coloured 180-gram audiophile vinyl. Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation is a studio album by American jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman, released in September 1961. The recording session took place on December 21, 1960, at A&R Studios in New York City. The album is named after the then-nascent free jazz movement. The music is a continuous free improvisation with only a few brief pre-determined sections, recorded in one take with no overdubbing or editing. The album features what Coleman called a "double quartet, " i.e., two self-contained jazz quartets: each with a reed instrument, trumpet, bass, and drums. The two quartets are heard in separate channels, with Coleman's working quartet at the time in the left channel, and the second quartet, including the former Coleman rhythm section of Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell, on the right. The two quartets play simultaneously. Free Jazz was the first album-length improvisation at thirty-seven minutes, unheard of at the time. The original LP package incorporated Jackson Pollock's 1954 painting The White Light. The cover is a gatefold with a cutout window in the lower right corner allowing a glimpse of the painting; opening the cover revealed the full artwork, along with liner notes by critic Martin Williams.

Tracklist:

  1. Free Jazz (Part 1) [19:55]
  2. Free Jazz (Part 2) [16:28]

UPC > 8719262040656

Format > New Vinyl

Label > Music On Vinyl

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