Ornette Coleman
Twins (LP)
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condition (record/cover): NM / EX- (light yellowing on back)
More gold from the Atlantic vaults: Twins, the 1971 companion to The Art of the Improvisers, drawing again on the miraculous 1959-61 sessions when Ornette Coleman and the quartet were rewriting the language faster than the label could release the evidence. The centerpiece is "First Take" - the earlier, wilder run-through of the Free Jazz double-quartet experiment, seventeen minutes that some listeners quietly prefer to the issued version for its rawer edges and hungrier ensemble attack; hearing both is a genuine education in how collective improvisation finds its form. Around it, more prime quartet material with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell, from the deepest vein the label ever mined. When the outtakes shelf includes an alternate Free Jazz, the word outtake stops meaning anything useful.
US Atlantic pressing, essential for the Ornette floor of the collection - and every serious collection has an Ornette floor, or needs one.
Release notes
Recorded: (A1) A&R Studios, N.Y.C., NY ON December 21, 1960; (A2) Atlantic Studios, N.Y.C., NY On July 19, 1960; (B1) Radio Recorders, Hollywood, CA On May 22, 1959; (B2) Atlantic Studios, N.Y.C., NY On January 31, 1961; (B3) Atlantic Studios, N.Y.C., NY On July 26, 1960. Tracks A2, B2, B3 were mixed down in 1971, at Atlantic Studios, New York Remastered at Atlantic Studios This album was first released in 1971 as Atlantic 1588. Ⓒ 1981 Atlantic Rocording Corporation, a Warner Communications…
| A1 | First Take | 17:00 | |
| A2 | Little Symphony | 5:15 | |
| B1 | Monk And The Nun | 5:35 | |
| B2 | Check Up | 10:10 | |
| B3 | Joy Of A Toy | 4:35 |
- Bob Defrin
- Art Direction, Design
- Curtice Taylor
- Artwork [Hand Coloring]
- Ornette Coleman
- Composed By
- Ilhan Mimaroglu
- Coordinator [Atlantic Jazzlore Series]
- Bones Howe
- Engineer [Recording] (B1)
- Phil Iehle
- Engineer [Recording] (A2)
- Tom Dowd
- Engineer [Recording] (A1, A2, B3, B4)
- GP
- Lacquer Cut By, Remastered By
- Martin Williams
- Liner Notes
- Geoffrey Haslam
- Mixed By [Mixed Down] (A2, B2, B3)
- Chuck Stewart
- Photography By
- Nesuhi Ertegun
- Producer
