ORNETTE Coleman ATLANTIC YEARS 10 LP VINYL Box Set

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Limited Edition 180g Vinyl 10LP Box Set
10 Essential LPs From The Free Jazz Pioneer
Includes 6 Tracks On Vinyl For First Time + Several Titles Long Out-Of-Print On Vinyl
Newly remastered audio by John Webber at AIR Studios

One of the most important (and controversial) innovators of the jazz avant-garde, Ornette Coleman gained both loyal followers and lifelong detractors when he seemed to burst on the scene in 1959 fully formed. Originally inspired by Charlie Parker, he started playing alto at 14 and tenor two years later. His early experiences were in R&B bands in Texas, including those of Red Connors and Pee Wee Crayton, but his attempts to play in an original style were consistently met with hostility both by audiences and fellow musicians. Coleman moved to Los Angeles in the early '50s, where he worked as an elevator operator while studying music books.

Coleman recorded one of the greatest bodies of work in jazz during a 22-month-long burst of creativity. Between 1959 and 1961, the saxophonist and composer released six studio albums on Atlantic Records that helped usher in the avant-garde, free jazz movement. Those albums, along with more than two hours of session outtakes, are featured together in the 10-LP boxed set ORNETTE COLEMAN: THE ATLANTIC YEARS, featuring newly remastered audio by John Webber at AIR Studios. Several of these titles are long out-of-print on vinyl. The Ornette Coleman Legacy, featuring six songs originally released for the first time in 1993 as part of Rhino's CD boxed set Beauty Is A Rare Thing, is making its vinyl debut.

The LPs are presented in replica European-style 1960s jackets in a side-loading slipcase along with a 12 x 12 booklet with new liner notes written by renowned author-music critic Ben Ratliff, plus rare pictures taken by legendary jazz photographer Lee Friedlander. The albums featured in the set are: The Shape Of Jazz To Come (1959), Change Of The Century (1959), This Is Our Music (1960), Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (1960), Ornette!(1961), Ornette On Tenor (1961), The Art Of Improvisers (1970), Twins (1971), To Whom Who Keeps A Record (1975), and The Ornette Coleman Legacy (1993).

On most of his Atlantic albums, Coleman recorded with a quartet that included trumpeter Don Cherry, plus either Charlie Haden or Scott LaFaro on bass, and either Billy Higgins or Ed Blackwell on drums. One notable exception is Free Jazz, a ground-breaking single-track album where Coleman led a double quartet through a nearly 40-minute collective improvisation. The stereo mix used for the album separates the quartets into different channels; one on the right and the other on the left.

Coleman worked extensively with producer Nesuhi Ertegun on the music featured in this collection. Their partnership began in 1959 with Coleman's Atlantic debut, The Shape of Jazz To Come, an album the Library of Congress added to its National Recording Registry in 2012.

Among the albums included in THE ATLANTIC YEARS are three compilations that Atlantic released in the 1970's: The Art Of Improvisers (1970), Twins (1971), and To Whom Who Keeps A Record (1975.) These albums include outtakes from recording sessions for all six of Coleman's studio albums.

Features:
• Limited Edition 
• 10LP Box Set
• 180g Vinyl
• Newly Remastered Audio by John Webber at AIR Studios
• Deluxe Vintage-Style Jackets
• Side-Loading Slipcase
• 12x12 Booklet with new liner notes by Ben Ratliff and rare photos by legendary jazz photographer Lee Friedlander
• Includes The Ornette Coleman Legacy - featuring 6 tracks available for the first time on vinyl

Rhino's 2018 box The Atlantic Years offers new vinyl pressings of Ornette Coleman's Atlantic discography. This isn't limited to the nine albums that were recorded between 1959 and 1961 then parceled out on LP between 1959 and 1975 (which is the date when To Whom Who Keeps a Record finally hit the stores, following the comps The Art of Improvisers and Twins to market): the unreleased material gathered on Rhino's definitive 1995 box Beauty Is a Rare Thing is here as a bonus LP dubbed The Ornette Coleman Legacy. Beauty Is a Rare Thing was sequenced in session order, but the intent of The Atlantic Years is to present Coleman's discography as it was released, all newly remastered. As these records have been out of print on vinyl for a while, this gesture is welcome but, happily, the set is not only handsome -- the art is snappy, the sleeves sturdy -- but the sound is rich, full, and alive. It's an excellent (and affordable) way to get the core of Coleman's catalog on vinyl. - Stephen Thomas Erlewine

• LPs made by ATLANTIC / RHINO Records, in the E.U.
  

• LPs released in 2018 - out of print
  

• LPs are recorded in STEREO

• Record Catalog Number: 0081227940690

Ornette Coleman

The Atlantic Years

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The 10-LP box is in NM, The box has NO splits or crushed corners and does has a slight shelf wear on bottom. Records are mint and unplayed!