Coleman Classics Volume 1
Coleman Classics Volume 1 | ||||
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Live album by Paul Bley, Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins | ||||
Released | 1977 | |||
Recorded | October 1958 | |||
Venue | The Hilcrest Club, Los Angeles, California | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 35:14 | |||
Label | Improvising Artists IAI 37.38.52 | |||
Producer | Paul Bley | |||
Paul Bley chronology | ||||
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Coleman Classics Volume 1 is a live album by pianist Paul Bley, saxophonist Ornette Coleman, trumpeter Don Cherry, drummer Billy Higgins and bassist Charlie Haden recorded in California in 1958 and released Bley's on the Improvising Artists label in 1977.[1] The album is an early live recording of Ornette Coleman, made shortly after his first album, Something Else!!!! and featuring the group (without Bley) that would soon record the Atlantic albums The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959) and Change of the Century (1960).
Reception
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The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Allmusic reviewer Scott Yanow observed: "Coleman already had his very original style pretty much together at this early stage. Paul Bley was wise enough to mostly stay out of the way and he clearly benefited from this encounter with some of the pioneers of free jazz".[2]
Track listing
All compositions by Ornette Coleman except as indicated
- "When Will The Blues Leave" - 14:06
- "Crossroads" - 2:00
- "Rambling" - 14:28
- "How Deep Is the Ocean" (Irving Berlin) - 4:40
Personnel
- Paul Bley - piano
- Ornette Coleman - alto saxophone
- Don Cherry - cornet
- Charlie Haden - bass
- Billy Higgins - drums
References
- v
- t
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- Introducing Paul Bley
- Paul Bley
- Solemn Meditation
- Footloose!
- Barrage
- Touching
- Closer
- Ramblin'
- Mr. Joy
- Paul Bley with Gary Peacock
- Ballads
- The Paul Bley Synthesizer Show
- Open, to Love
- Paul Bley/NHØP
- Jaco
- Alone, Again
- Quiet Song
- Tears
- Tango Palace
- Sonor
- Questions
- Diane
- My Standard
- Fragments
- The Paul Bley Quartet
- The Nearness of You
- Blues for Red
- Notes (with Paul Motian)
- Partners (with Gary Peacock)
- BeBopBeBopBeBopBeBop
- Memoirs (with Charlie Haden and Paul Motian)
- 12 (+6) In a Row (with Hans Koch and Franz Koglmann)
- Right Time, Right Place (with Gary Burton)
- Changing Hands
- In the Evenings out There
- Paul Plays Carla
- Annette
- Hands On
- If We May
- Time Will Tell (with Evan Parker and Barre Phillips)
- Chaos (with Furio Di Castri and Tony Oxley)
- Sankt Gerold (with Evan Parker and Barre Phillips)
- Notes on Ornette
- Not Two, Not One (with Gary Peacock and Paul Motian)
- Basics
- Nothing to Declare
- About Time
- Live at the Hilcrest Club 1958
- Coleman Classics Volume 1
- Improvisie
- Dual Unity (with Annette Peacock)
- Japan Suite
- Axis
- Hot
- Live at Sweet Basil
- Solo in Mondsee
- Play Blue: Oslo Concert