Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation

Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation
Studio album by
Ornette Coleman
ReleasedSeptember 1961
RecordedDecember 21, 1960 (1960-12-21)
GenreFree jazz
Length37:10
LabelAtlantic SD 1364
ProducerNesuhi Ertegün
Ornette Coleman chronology
This Is Our Music
(1961) 		Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation
(1961) 		Ornette!
(1962)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Down Beat[1]
Allmusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[3]
Yahoo! Music(favorable)[4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[5]
Tom HullA−[6]

Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation is an album by the jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman. It was released through Atlantic Records in September 1961: the fourth of Coleman's six albums for the label. Its title named the then-nascent free jazz movement. The recording session took place on December 21, 1960, at A&R Studios in New York City. The sole outtake from the album session, "First Take," was later released on the 1971 compilation Twins and subsequent CD reissues of Free Jazz.

  1. ^ Down Beat: January 18, 1962 vol. 29, no. 2
  2. ^ Allmusic Review
  3. ^ Richard Cook and Brian Morton, The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, 7th ed. (Penguin, 2004), p. 322.
  4. ^ Yahoo! Music review
  5. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 45. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  6. ^ Hull, Tom (n.d.). "Jazz (1940–50s) (Reference)". tomhull.com. Retrieved March 4, 2020.