Various Artists- In The Ascendancy: The Jazz Avant-Garde / Various
SKU: 5013929337732
A 3CD anthology of Free / Avant-Garde jazz. The landmark albums included here in their entirety are Ornette Coleman's 'The Shape of Jazz to Come', 'Thesis' by The Jimmy Giuffre 3, John Coltrane's '"Live" at the Village Vanguard' (including the controversial 'Chasin' the Trane'), 'Warm Canto' by Eric Dolphy (his work on flute bass clarinet) and from the astonishing date of 1956, Cecil Taylor's 'Jazz Advance', the earliest recording of the new music. Featuring key works by the pioneers of the new music; the saxophonists Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Albert Ayler and Joe Harriott; the pianists Cecil Taylor and Sun Ra; and the multi-reed men Eric Dolphy and Jimmy Giuffre, whose minimalist abstractions for clarinet are in fascinating contrast to the labyrinthine, raga like lines of Coleman or Coltrane, Ayler's cries from the ghetto, or the Impressionist dissonances of Taylor. If, in the work of Joe Harriott, the flavour of calypso is implicit then similarly that alluring juxtaposition of antique Africa and the cosmos in the music of Sun Ra.
Track List
- Lonely Woman-Ornette Coleman
- Eventually-Ornette Coleman
- Peace-Ornette Coleman
- Focus on Sanity-Ornette Coleman
- Congeniality-Ornette Coleman
- Chronology-Ornette Coleman
- Ictus-
- That's True That's True-Jimmy Giuffre
- Sonic-Jimmy Giuffre
- Whirrr-Jimmy Giuffre
- Carla-Jimmy Giuffre
- Goodbye-Jimmy Giuffre
- Flight-Jimmy Giuffre
- The Gamut-Jimmy Giuffre
- Ancient Aiethopia-Sunra
- Spiritual-John Coltrane -Eric Dolphy
- Softly As in a Morning Sunrise-John Coltrane -Eric Dolphy
- Chasin' the Trane-John Coltrane
- Naima (With John Coltrane)-Eric Dolphy
- To Her Ladyship (With John Coltrane)-Eric Dolphy
- Stolen Moments (With Oliver Nelson)-Eric Dolphy
- Glad to Be Unhappy-Eric Dolphy
- God Bless the Child-Eric Dolphy
- Warm Canto (With Mal Waldron)-Eric Dolphy
- Left Alone-Eric Dolphy
- Abstract-Joe Harriott Quintet
- Impression-Joe Harriott Quintet
- Straight Lines-Joe Harriott Quintet
- Calypso Sketches-Joe Harriott Quintet
- Bemsha Swing-Cecil Taylor
- Charge 'Em Blues-Cecil Taylor
- Azure-Cecil Taylor
- Song-Cecil Taylor
- You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To-Cecil Taylor
- Rick Kick Shaw-Cecil Taylor
- Sweet and Lovely-Cecil Taylor
- Free-Albert Ayler Free
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A 3CD anthology of Free / Avant-Garde jazz. The landmark albums included here in their entirety are Ornette Coleman's 'The Shape of Jazz to Come', 'Thesis' by The Jimmy Giuffre 3, John Coltrane's '"Live" at the Village Vanguard' (including the controversial 'Chasin' the Trane'), 'Warm Canto' by Eric Dolphy (his work on flute bass clarinet) and from the astonishing date of 1956, Cecil Taylor's 'Jazz Advance', the earliest recording of the new music. Featuring key works by the pioneers of the new music; the saxophonists Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Albert Ayler and Joe Harriott; the pianists Cecil Taylor and Sun Ra; and the multi-reed men Eric Dolphy and Jimmy Giuffre, whose minimalist abstractions for clarinet are in fascinating contrast to the labyrinthine, raga like lines of Coleman or Coltrane, Ayler's cries from the ghetto, or the Impressionist dissonances of Taylor. If, in the work of Joe Harriott, the flavour of calypso is implicit then similarly that alluring juxtaposition of antique Africa and the cosmos in the music of Sun Ra.
Track List
- Lonely Woman-Ornette Coleman
- Eventually-Ornette Coleman
- Peace-Ornette Coleman
- Focus on Sanity-Ornette Coleman
- Congeniality-Ornette Coleman
- Chronology-Ornette Coleman
- Ictus-
- That's True That's True-Jimmy Giuffre
- Sonic-Jimmy Giuffre
- Whirrr-Jimmy Giuffre
- Carla-Jimmy Giuffre
- Goodbye-Jimmy Giuffre
- Flight-Jimmy Giuffre
- The Gamut-Jimmy Giuffre
- Ancient Aiethopia-Sunra
- Spiritual-John Coltrane -Eric Dolphy
- Softly As in a Morning Sunrise-John Coltrane -Eric Dolphy
- Chasin' the Trane-John Coltrane
- Naima (With John Coltrane)-Eric Dolphy
- To Her Ladyship (With John Coltrane)-Eric Dolphy
- Stolen Moments (With Oliver Nelson)-Eric Dolphy
- Glad to Be Unhappy-Eric Dolphy
- God Bless the Child-Eric Dolphy
- Warm Canto (With Mal Waldron)-Eric Dolphy
- Left Alone-Eric Dolphy
- Abstract-Joe Harriott Quintet
- Impression-Joe Harriott Quintet
- Straight Lines-Joe Harriott Quintet
- Calypso Sketches-Joe Harriott Quintet
- Bemsha Swing-Cecil Taylor
- Charge 'Em Blues-Cecil Taylor
- Azure-Cecil Taylor
- Song-Cecil Taylor
- You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To-Cecil Taylor
- Rick Kick Shaw-Cecil Taylor
- Sweet and Lovely-Cecil Taylor
- Free-Albert Ayler Free
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