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Twins (Ornette Coleman album)

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Released
  
October 4, 1971

Twins (1971)
  
Science Fiction (1972)

Release date
  
4 October 1971

Label
  
Atlantic Records

Length
  
42:35

Artist
  
Ornette Coleman

Producer
  
Nesuhi Ertegun

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Recorded
  
May 22, 1959 July 19 and 26, 1960 December 21, 1960 January 31, 1961

Genres
  
Free jazz, Avant-garde jazz

Similar
  
Ornette Coleman albums, Free jazz albums, Other albums

Twins is a compilation album credited to jazz composer and saxophonist Ornette Coleman, released by Atlantic Records in 1971. The album was assembled without Coleman's input, comprising outtakes from recording sessions of 1959 to 1961 for The Shape of Jazz to Come, This Is Our Music, Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation, and Ornette! Sessions for "Monk and the Nun" took place at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, California; for "First Take" at A&R Studios in New York City, and all others at Atlantic Studios also in Manhattan. The track "First Take" was a first attempt at "Free Jazz" from the album of the same name.

Contents

Track listing

All compositions by Ornette Coleman.

Personnel

  • Ornette Coleman – alto saxophone
  • Don Cherry – pocket trumpet; cornet on "Monk and the Nun"
  • Charlie Haden – bass on 1959 and 1960 tracks
  • Scott LaFaro – bass on "First Take" and "Check Up"
  • Billy Higgins – drums on "First Take" and "Monk and the Nun"
  • Ed Blackwell – drums on 1960 and 1961 tracks
  • Freddie Hubbard – trumpet on "First Take"
  • Eric Dolphy – bass clarinet on "First Take"

    • Songs

    1First Take17:00
    2Little Symphony5:15
    3Monk and the Nun5:35

    References

    Twins (Ornette Coleman album) Wikipedia
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