Ornette Coleman – Genesis of Genius: The Contemporary Albums (180g Vinyl 2LP Box Set by Craft)

$118.00

Ornette Coleman’s Contemporary Albums Something Else!!!! and Tomorrow is the Question! Cut Directly from the Original Analog Tapes to Lacquer by Mastering Engineer Bernie Grundman and Pressed at RTI

180g Vinyl 2LP Box Set includes 32-Page Booklet with Vintage Photos and Extensive New Liner Notes by Grammy Award-Winning Music Historian Ashley Kahn

Continuing Contemporary Records’ 70th anniversary celebration, Craft Recordings presents the new Ornette Coleman box set, Genesis of Genius: The Contemporary Albums featuring the two seminal releases, 1958’s Something Else!!!! The Music of Ornette Coleman and 1959’s Tomorrow Is the Question! The New Music of Ornette Coleman. These albums transformed an unknown jazz visionary from the hinterlands into the talk of the New York scene.

Both albums were originally recorded by legendary engineer Roy DuNann, the man responsible for the famously pristine sound quality of Contemporary albums, and have been newly mastered for this release by Bernie Grundman, who himself got his start at Contemporary, mentored by DuNann. The 180-gram 2LP-set will be pressed at RTI and has been cut from the original analog tapes to lacquer. The deluxe box set also includes a 32-page booklet with archival photos and extensive new liner notes by Grammy Award-winning music historian Ashley Kahn. The LP jacket replicates the original tip-on versions.

Largely avoided by his colleagues on the L.A. jazz scene in the late 1950s, Coleman found an open door at Contemporary Records, where the label’s founder Lester Koenig was intrigued by his melodic sensibility and unorthodox approach to phrasing. After his Contemporary albums, Coleman quickly went on to New York City and turned the jazz scene on its head, but it was Koenig who provided the first glimpse of the saxophonist’s new approach to rhythm and harmony.

• 180g vinyl 2LP box set from Craft Recordings
• Box set produced by Nick Phillips
• Featuring the Contemporary Records albums Something Else!!!!: The Music of Ornette Coleman and Tomorrow is the Question!: The New Music of Ornette Coleman
• Recorded by Contemporary Records’ engineer Roy DuNann
• Lacquers cut directly from original analog tapes to lacquer by mastering engineer Bernie Grundman
• Pressed at RTI
• 32-page booklet features vintage photos and extensive new liner notes by Grammy Award-winning music historian Ashley Kahn

LP1 – Something Else!!!!: The Music of Ornette Coleman
1. Invisible
2. The Blessing
3. Jayne
4. Chippie
5. The Disguise
6. Angel Voice
7. Alpha
8. When Will The Blues Leave?
9. The Sphinx

Ornette Coleman – alto saxophone
Don Cherry – trumpet
Walter Norris – piano
Don Payne – bass
Billy Higgins – drums

LP2 – Tomorrow is the Question!: The New Music of Ornette Coleman
1. Tomorrow Is The Question!
2. Tears Inside
3. Mind And Time
4. Compassion
5. Giggin’
6. Rejoicing
7. Lorraine
8. Turnaround
9. Endless

Ornette Coleman – alto saxophone
Don Cherry – trumpet
Percy Heath / Red Mitchell – bass
Shelly Manne – drums

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