Ornette Coleman

Featuring: Don Cherry, Eric Dolphy, Charlie Haden, Freddie Hubbard, Ed Blackwell

condition (record/cover): NM / NM

Un-laminated and no die-cut gatefold sleeve with original innersleeve.

Second copy of the Atlantic monument, and records like this justify double stocking without a moment's discussion. Ornette Coleman's double quartet experiment of December 1960 remains one of the most argued-about recordings in jazz history - and, sixty-five years on, one of the most completely vindicated: the "anti-jazz" broadsides of the day now read like reviews of the future written by the past. Eric Dolphy and Freddie Hubbard flank the leader in the left and right channels, two of the greatest rhythm teams ever assembled churn underneath in stereo dialogue, and the whole thirty-seven-minute span keeps revealing new architecture on every listen - try following just Haden and LaFaro once, then just Blackwell and Higgins, and hear the piece reorganize itself around you.

The Pollock gatefold remains one of the perfect marriages of sleeve and content in the format's history. Own it, argue about it, return to it forever - the record was built for all three.