| To Whom Who Keeps a Record | ||||
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| Released | Japan only, late 1975 | |||
| Recorded | October 8, 1959 July 19 and 26, 1960 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 40:17 | |||
| Label | Warner Pioneer P-10085A | |||
| Producer | Nesuhi Ertegun | |||
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To Whom Who Keeps a Record is an album credited to jazz composer and saxophonist Ornette Coleman, originally released by the Japanese subsidiary Warner Pioneer of Warner Bros. Records in 1975. The album, which was assembled by Atlantic producer İlhan Mimaroğlu without Coleman's input, comprises outtakes from Atlantic Records recording sessions of 1959 and 1960 for Change of the Century and This Is Our Music.[1] Sessions for "Music Always" took place at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, California with Billy Higgins on drums; all others took place at Atlantic Studios in New York City with drummer Ed Blackwell. (Blackwell replaced Higgins shortly before the Coleman group's 1960 engagement at the Five Spot Café after Higgins encountered cabaret card difficulties in New York.[2])
The album was reissued by Water Music Records in 2006 and by Superior Viaduct in 2016.[3] The contents of the album also appear on the 1993 compilation Beauty Is a Rare Thing[4] as well as the 2018 compilation The Atlantic Years.[5]
The track titles spell out "music always brings goodness to us all, p.s. unless one has some other motive for its use."
- ^ Ornette Coleman discography accessed November 28, 2011
- ^ Wilmer, Val (2018). As Serious As Your Life. Serpent's Tail. p. 247.
- ^ "Ornette Coleman: To Whom Who Keeps A Record: Releases". AllMusic. Retrieved January 13, 2022.
- ^ Jurek, Thom. "Ornette Coleman: Beauty Is a Rare Thing: The Complete Atlantic Recordings". AllMusic. Retrieved January 13, 2022.
- ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Ornette Coleman: The Atlantic Years". AllMusic. Retrieved January 13, 2022.