Arranged chronologically by recording date, the set collects music from 1959 to 1961, the period many consider Ornette’s most vital. But for Coleman fans, this collection is an embarrassment of riches. The opportunity to possess–in one convenient package–every recording Ornette Coleman made for Atlantic is an opportunity most fans of modern jazz would be hard pressed to turn down. It was a great band.” – Charlie Hadenīeauty Is A Rare Thing: The Complete Atlantic recordings (Atlantic/1993) There was no piano or guitar playing chords and so I had to play chords in my basslines and learn how to create new chord structures. I had to really listen to everything that he played because he was always modulating from one key to another and I was the only chordal instrument in the band.

“Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry & Billy Higgins and I were lucky enough to have met at the same time as we were feeling the same way about music and that feeling was to play music as if we were hearing it for the first time and creating a new chord structure as we improvised…playing with Ornette was a learning experience, definitely.

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