{"product_id":"ornette-coleman-free-jazz-2025-reissue","title":"Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz (2025 Reissue)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFree Jazz: A Collective Improvisation\u003c\/em\u003e is a studio album by American jazz saxophonist, Ornette Coleman, released in September 1961. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe album features what Coleman called a \"double quartet,\" i.e., two self-contained jazz quartets: each with a reed instrument, trumpet, bass, and drums. The two quartets are heard in separate channels, with Coleman's working quartet at the time in the left channel, and the second quartet, including the former Coleman rhythm section of Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell, on the right. The two quartets play simultaneously.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e Free Jazz \u003c\/em\u003ewas the first album-length improvisation at thirty-seven minutes, unheard of at the time. The original LP package incorporated Jackson Pollock's 1954 painting The White Light. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe cover is a gatefold with a cutout window in the lower right corner allowing a glimpse of the painting; opening the cover revealed the full artwork, along with liner notes by critic, Martin Williams. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eFree Jazz\u003c\/em\u003e served as the blueprint for later large-ensemble free jazz recordings such as Ascension by John Coltrane and Machine Gun by Peter Brötzmann.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MUSIC ON VINYL","offers":[{"title":"White LP","offer_id":53021647634774,"sku":"MRM-02478","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/6088\/9430\/files\/43bf2a7530b3cad5308f124bb3d05472.png?v=1775199876","url":"https:\/\/monorailmusic.com\/products\/ornette-coleman-free-jazz-2025-reissue","provider":"Monorail Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}