The Art of the Improvisers
1970 studio album by Ornette Coleman
The Art of the Improvisers is an album credited to jazz composer and saxophonist Ornette Coleman , released by Atlantic Records in 1970.[1] 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 .[2] Recording sessions in 1959 took place at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, California ; those in 1960 and 1961 at Atlantic Studios in New York City .
Reception
Thom Jurek, writing in AllMusic , characterized the album as "basically one of Coleman's most uptempo records for Atlantic, but also one of his most soulful. It deserves serious re-evaluation".[3]
Track listing
All compositions by Ornette Coleman.
Side one
Title Date 1. "The Circle with a Hole in the Middle" October 9, 1959 4:54 2. "Just for You" May 22, 1959 3:53 3. "The Fifth of Beethoven" July 26, 1960 6:39 4. "The Alchemy of Scott LaFaro" January 31, 1961 9:52
Side two
Title Date 1. "Moon Inhabitants" July 26, 1960 4:33 2. "The Legend of Bebop" July 26, 1960 7:18 3. "Harlem's Manhattan" March 27, 1961 8:09
Personnel
References
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