Beauty is a rare thing : the complete Atlantic recordings

Author

Ornette Coleman

Call Number

• COMPACT DISC JAZZ (CEN)

Performers

Ornette Coleman, alto and tenor saxophone ; with, variously: Don Cherry, pocket trumpet, cornet ; Charlie Haden, double bass ; Billy Higgins, drums ; Ed Blackwell, drums ; Eric Dolphy, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, flute ; Bill Evans, piano ; Jimmy Garrison, double bass ; Jim Hall, guitar ; Freddie Hubbard, trumpet ; Scott LaFaro, double bass.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Atlantic Recording Corporation ; [Los Angeles, CA] : Distributed by Rhino Records, p1993.

Physical Description

6 sound discs : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.

Notes

Compact discs.

Program notes in accompanying booklet.

Digitally remastered from the original stereo master tapes.

Contents

• Disc 1. Focus on sanity
• Chronology
• Peace
• Congeniality
• Lonely woman
• Monk and the nun
• Just for you
• Eventually
• Una muy bonita
• Bird food
• Change of the century
• Music always. Disc 2. The face of the bass
• Forerunner - Free
• The circle with a hole in the middle
• Ramblin'
• Little symphony
• The tribes of New York
• Kaleidoscope
• Rise and shine
• Mr. and Mrs. People
• Blues connotation
• I heard it over the radio.

• Disc 3. P.S. unless one has (blues connotation no. 2)
• Revolving doors
• Brings goodness
• Joy of a toy
• To us
• Humpty Dumpty
• The fifth of Beethoven
• Motive for its use
• Moon inhabitants
• The legend of bebop
• Some other
• Embraceable you
• All. Disc 4. Folk tale
• Poise
• Beauty is a rare thing: First take ; Free jazz. Disc 5. PROOF readers
• W.R.U.
• Check up
• T. & T.
• C. & D.
• R.P.D.D.
• The alchemy of Scott LaFaro.

• Disc 6. Eos
• Enfant
• Ecars
• Cross breeding
• Harlem's Manhattan
• Mapa
• Abstraction
• Variants on a theme of Thelonius Monk (Criss-cross): Variant I ; Variant II ; Variant III ; Variant IV.