Ornette Coleman

Featuring: Charlie Haden, Ed Blackwell

condition (record/cover): NM / VG+ (sticker removal residue on front)

A French Musidisc edition gathering vintage Ornette Coleman - the kind of European catalog release that kept the revolutionary's early work circulating on the continent through the seventies, when the original American pressings had already become hunting trophies and the music itself was being rediscovered by a generation raised on what it made possible. The title states it well: the case being made is the original one, the singing alto and the melodic freedom that rewrote the rules and then kept rewriting them, presented for a European audience that had taken Ornette's side early and never wavered. French jazz pressings of this era have their own honest charm - sturdy production, devoted liner treatment, and their own circle of collectors who know the catalogs by heart.

A solid piece of that ecosystem, and of the story of how this music stayed alive in print. A good working copy of foundational sounds, priced for the turntable rather than the display shelf.