Twins (Ornette Coleman album)
Twins | ||||
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Studio album by Ornette Coleman | ||||
Released | October 4, 1971 | |||
Recorded | May 22, 1959 July 19 and 26, 1960 December 21, 1960 January 31, 1961 | |||
Genre | Free jazz, avant-garde jazz | |||
Length | 42:35 | |||
Label | Atlantic 1588 | |||
Producer | Nesuhi Ertegün | |||
Ornette Coleman chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [1] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz | [2] |
Twins is an album credited to jazz composer and saxophonist Ornette Coleman, released by Atlantic Records in 1971. The album was assembled without Coleman's input, comprising outtakes from recording sessions of 1959 to 1961 for The Shape of Jazz to Come, This Is Our Music, Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation, and Ornette! Sessions for "Monk and the Nun" took place at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, California; for "First Take" at A&R Studios in New York City, and all others at Atlantic Studios also in Manhattan. The track "First Take" was a first attempt at "Free Jazz" from the album of the same name.
Track listing
All compositions by Ornette Coleman.
No. | Title | Date | Length |
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1. | "First Take" | December 21, 1960 | 17:00 |
2. | "Little Symphony" | July 19, 1960 | 5:15 |
No. | Title | Date | Length |
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1. | "Monk and the Nun" | May 22, 1959 | 5:35 |
2. | "Check Up" | January 31, 1961 | 10:10 |
3. | "Joy of a Toy" | July 26, 1960 | 4:35 |
Personnel
- Ornette Coleman – alto saxophone
- Don Cherry – pocket trumpet; cornet on "Monk and the Nun"
- Charlie Haden – bass on 1959 and 1960 tracks
- Scott LaFaro – bass on "First Take" and "Check Up"
- Billy Higgins – drums on "First Take" and "Monk and the Nun"
- Ed Blackwell – drums on 1960 and 1961 tracks
- Freddie Hubbard – trumpet on "First Take"
- Eric Dolphy – bass clarinet on "First Take"
References
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- Something Else!!!! (1958)
- Tomorrow Is the Question! (1959)
- The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959)
- Change of the Century (1960)
- This Is Our Music (1961)
- Free Jazz (1961)
- Ornette! (1962)
- Ornette on Tenor (1962)
- Chappaqua Suite (1965)
- The Empty Foxhole (1966)
- New York Is Now! (1968)
- Love Call (1968)
- Science Fiction (1971)
- Skies of America (1972)
- Dancing in Your Head (1976)
- Body Meta (1976)
- Soapsuds, Soapsuds (1977)
- Of Human Feelings (1982)
- Song X (1986)
- In All Languages (1987)
- Virgin Beauty (1988)
- Tone Dialing (1995)
- Sound Museum: Hidden Man (1996)
- Sound Museum: Three Women (1996)
- The Art of the Improvisers (1970)
- Twins (1971)
- To Whom Who Keeps a Record (1975)
- Broken Shadows (1982)
- Beauty Is a Rare Thing (1995)
- Town Hall, 1962 (1965)
- At the "Golden Circle" Vol. 1 & 2 (1966)
- Ornette at 12 (1968)
- Crisis (1969)
- Friends and Neighbors: Live at Prince Street (1970)
- The Belgrade Concert (1971)
- Opening the Caravan of Dreams (1985)
- Prime Design/Time Design (1986)
- Colors: Live from Leipzig (1997)
- Sound Grammar (2006)
- Jayne Cortez (ex-wife)
- Denardo Coleman (son)
- Prime Time
- "Broadway Blues" (composition)
- "Lonely Woman" (composition)
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