Released February 1961 Release date February 1961 | Length 38:46 Producer Nesuhi Ertegun | |
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Recorded July 19 and 26,August 2, 1960 Similar Change of the Century, The Shape of Jazz to Come, Tomorrow Is the Question!, Skies of America, Free Jazz: A Collective | ||
This Is Our Music is the fifth album by saxophonist Ornette Coleman, recorded in 1960 and released on Atlantic Records in 1961, his third for the label. It is the first with drummer Ed Blackwell replacing his predecessor Billy Higgins in the Coleman Quartet, and is the only one of Coleman's Atlantic albums to include a standard, in this case a version of "Embraceable You" by George and Ira Gershwin. Two recording sessions for the album took place in July and one in August 1960 at Atlantic Studios in New York City. The seven selections for this album were culled from 23 masters recorded over the three sessions. The 16 outtakes from the two July sessions would later appear on the 1970s compilations The Art of the Improvisers, Twins, and To Whom Who Keeps A Record, along with the 1993 box set Beauty Is A Rare Thing, named for a track on this album.
Contents
Track listing
All compositions by Ornette Coleman except "Embraceable You" by George and Ira Gershwin.
Personnel
Songs
1Blues Connotation5:17
2Beauty Is A Rare Thing7:13
3Kaleidoscope6:36