Released 1976 Genre Jazz Label Inner City IC 1007 | Recorded October, 1958 Length 32:05 | |
Venue The Hillcrest Club, Los Angeles, California | ||
Live at the Hilcrest Club 1958 (also released as The Fabulous Paul Bley Quintet) is a live album by pianist Paul Bley, saxophonist Ornette Coleman, trumpeter Don Cherry, drummer Billy Higgins and bassist Charlie Haden recorded in California in 1958 and released on the Inner City label in 1976. The album is notable as being the first live recording of Ornette Coleman, made shortly after he recorded his first album, Something Else!!!! and featuring the group (without Bley) that would soon record the classic Atlantic albums The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959) and Change of the Century (1960).
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Reception
Village Voice critic Robert Christgau rated the album an "A" on its release noting that "I have the feeling when I want people to understand what free jazz meant, this is what I'll play". Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars noting "The recording quality is decent for the period, and avant-garde collectors will want to search for this pioneering effort". The Penguin Guide to Jazz said "This is clearly an important record and, technical difficulties aside, it should be in all modern collections. However, it isn't central to Bley's recorded output".
Track listing
All compositions by Ornette Coleman except as indicated
- "Klactoveesedstene" (Charlie Parker) – 12:04
- "I Remember Harlem" (Roy Eldridge) – 3:48
- "The Blessing" – 9:35
- "Free" – 5:39