TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.7198
Ornette Coleman Album Rankings
1
Ornette Coleman has followed a strange path.
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2
Ornette Coleman's Atlantic debut,The Shape of Jazz to Come, was a watershed event in the genesis of avant-garde jazz, profoundly steering its future course and throwing down a gauntlet that some still
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3
While it's true this set has been given the highest rating AMG awards, it comes with a qualifier: the rating is for the music and the package, not necessarily the presentation.
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4
While Texas jazz legend Ornette Coleman has mellowed considerably over the decades, it's a sign of how the times have finally caught up with his visionary, harmolodic approach to improvising when you
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5
On his second outing for the Contemporary label, Ornette dusted the piano from the bandstand and focused instead on a quartet.
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6
Following the symphonic explorations of 1972'sSkies of America, Ornette Coleman became fascinated with the music of Morocco.
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7
Here's what is known about Ornette Coleman's first recorded orchestral symphonic work (he had written others previously and had them performed but never put on tape): After hiring conductorDavid Meash
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8
When you wander the streets of New York at night alone, every street urchin and clammy prostitute will eventually sidle up to you and relate some story about that wild year when he or she was an avant
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9
Ornette Coleman's brief tenure at Blue Note was neither as seminal as his Atlantic output nor as brazenly ambitious as his early-'70s work for Columbia and later withPrime Time.
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10
Ornette Coleman's decision to temporarily retire from music (this ESP disc was his only recording from a four-year period) was unfortunate.
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11
All the Atlantic sides by Coleman are highly recommended (and available in a six-CD boxed set called Beauty Is A RareThing ) but this is a good entry place, with one of Coleman's most popular (and co
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12
Ornette assembles a double quartet--two reeds, two trumpets, two basses, two drummers--for this famous extended free-form piece which not only hangs together nicely but ranges in emotion from ecstati
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13
Ornette Coleman's Atlantic debut, The Shape of Jazz to Come, was a watershed event in the genesis of avant-garde jazz, profoundly steering its future course and throwing down a gauntlet that some sti
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14
It's an understatement to say that Ornette Coleman's stint with Atlantic altered the jazz world forever, and Ornette on Tenor was the last of his six LPs (not counting outtakes compilations) for the
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17
Recorded during the same session that resulted in the Love Call album (in late April and early May of 1968), New York Is Now is one of the true curiosity pieces in Ornette's catalog.
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18
Coleman with Dewy Redman on tenor sax and ex- Coltrane bandmates Jimmy Garrison on bass and Elvin Jones on drums. Heavyweights, living up to their reputations.
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20
Two sessions, one a reunion of Coleman's original acoustic quartet, the second a set by Prime Time (his electric nom de aggregate).
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21
The short-lived but classy Artists House label debuted with this early Prime Time album by Ornette Coleman.
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27
Picasso used to be shocking. It was garbage. John Coltrane used to hurt people's ears. Charlie Parker just made lots of staccato noise.
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34
Ornette Coleman's brief tenure at Blue Note was neither as seminal as his Atlantic output nor as brazenly ambitious as his early-'70s work for Columbia and later with Prime Time.
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38
This four-part suite is actually a film soundtrack to the debut feature by Conrad Rooks, though it was never used as such.
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