Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation

Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation
Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation
Studio album by Ornette Coleman
Released	September 1961
Recorded	December 21, 1960
Genre	Free jazz
Length	37:10
Label	Atlantic SD 1364
Producer	Nesuhi Ertegün
Ornette Coleman chronology

Professional ratings
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Source	Rating
Down Beat	^[1]
Allmusic	^[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	^[3]
Yahoo! Music	(favorable)^[4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[5]
Tom Hull	A−^[6]

Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation is an album by the jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman. It was released through Atlantic Records in September 1961: the fourth of Coleman's six albums for the label. Its title named the then-nascent free jazz movement. The recording session took place on December 21, 1960, at A&R Studios in New York City. The sole outtake from the album session, "First Take," was later released on the 1971 compilation Twins and subsequent CD reissues of Free Jazz.

^ Down Beat: January 18, 1962 vol. 29, no. 2
^ Allmusic Review
^ Richard Cook and Brian Morton, The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, 7th ed. (Penguin, 2004), p. 322.
^ Yahoo! Music review
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 45. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ Hull, Tom (n.d.). "Jazz (1940–50s) (Reference)". tomhull.com. Retrieved March 4, 2020.

[1] Down Beat: January 18, 1962 vol. 29, no. 2

[2] Allmusic Review

[3] Richard Cook and Brian Morton, The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, 7th ed. (Penguin, 2004), p. 322.

[4] Yahoo! Music review

[RSJRG-5] Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 45. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

[6] Hull, Tom (n.d.). "Jazz (1940–50s) (Reference)". tomhull.com. Retrieved March 4, 2020.

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