ORNETTE COLEMAN - Beauty Is A Rare Thing (The Complete Atlantic Recordings)
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ORNETTE COLEMAN
Beauty Is A Rare Thing (The Complete Atlantic Recordings)
6xCD Box Set

£20.00
Condition: G / VG
Label: Rhino Records
Catalogue No: R2 71410
1993 set containing the original eight albums Coleman recorded for Atlantic: Shape of Jazz to Come, Change of the Century, The Art of the Improvisers, Twins, This Is Our Music, Free Jazz, Ornette, and Ornette on Tenor, plus To Whom Keeps a Record, comprised of recordings dating from 1959 to 1960. "In fact all of the material here was recorded between 1959 and 1961. Given that there is a total of six completely unreleased compositions as well as alternate takes and masters, this is a formidable mountain of material recorded with not only the classic quartet of Coleman, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Billy Higgins, but also the large double quartet who produced the two-sided improvisation that is Free Jazz with personalities as diverse as Eric Dolphy, Freddie Hubbard, and Scott LaFaro, as well as Coleman, Cherry, Haden, and Ed Blackwell, who had replaced Higgins on the music for To Whom Keeps a Record and This Is Our Music -- though Higgins does play on Free Jazz..."

Slipcase is fully intact but a bit scruffy; discs have a few small scratches.
  • 1-1 Focus On Sanity
  • 1-10 Bird Food
  • 1-11 Change Of The Century
  • 1-12 Music Always
  • 1-2 Chronology
  • 1-3 Peace
  • 1-4 Congeniality
  • 1-5 Lonely Woman
  • 1-6 Monk And The Nun
  • 1-7 Just For You
  • 1-8 Eventually
  • 1-9 Una Muy Bonita
  • 2-1 The Face Of The Bass
  • 2-10 Mr. And Mrs. People
  • 2-11 Blues Connotation
  • 2-12 I Heard It Over The Radio
  • 2-2 Forerunner
  • 2-3 Free
  • 2-4 The Circle With A Hole In The Middle
  • 2-5 Ramblin'
  • 2-6 Little Symphony
  • 2-7 The Tribes Of New York
  • 2-8 Kaleidoscope
  • 2-9 Rise And Shine
  • 3-1 P.S. Unless One Has (Blues Connotation No. 2)
  • 3-10 The Legend Of Bebop
  • 3-11 Some Other
  • 3-12 Embraceable You
  • 3-13 All
  • 3-2 Revolving Doors
  • 3-3 Brings Goodness
  • 3-4 Joy Of A Toy
  • 3-5 To Us
  • 3-6 Humpty Dumpty
  • 3-7 The Fifth Of Beethoven
  • 3-8 Motive For Its Use
  • 3-9 Moon Inhabitants
  • 4-1 Folk Tale
  • 4-2 Poise
  • 4-3 Beauty Is A Rare Thing
  • 4-4 First Take
  • 4-5 Free Jazz
  • 5-1 Proof Readers
  • 5-2 W.R.U.
  • 5-3 Check Up
  • 5-4 T. & T.
  • 5-5 C. & D.
  • 5-6 R.P.D.D.
  • 5-7 The Alchemy Of Scott LaFaro
  • 6-1 E O S
  • 6-2 Enfant
  • 6-3 Ecars
  • 6-4 Cross Breeding
  • 6-5 Harlem's Manhattan
  • 6-6 Mapa
  • 6-7 Abstraction
  • 6-8 Variants On A Theme Of Thelonious Monk (Criss-Cross): Variant I / Variant II / Variant III / Variant