Free Jazz Innovations 1959-1968

The list author says:
	"1959 - The album title is not overstated - this release really did help Ornette Coleman change the course of jazz."

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	"1959 - Just as important as "The Shape of Jazz to Come", the second album by this legendary quartet is more confident and even freer in the group improvisation."

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	"1960 - The music of this Jamaican-born saxophonist deserves to be much better known.  Harriott's 'free form' style was developed in England in parallel with Ornette Coleman's experimentation in the US"

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	"1962 - A live recording from Copenhagen - the first Cecil Taylor album to feature Jimmy Lyons on tenor sax.  From here on Taylor broke free of any remaining bop contraints."

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	"1964 - Ayler's one true studio masterpiece!"

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	"1964 - One of the pinnacles of jazz from any era - the group playfully flirt with atonality and unusual time signatures to create an exhilarating new soundscape."

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	"1965 - Fire Music is one of the most well known works of the jazz "New Thing". Its intensity reflects the heated political environment of the black civil rights movement."

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	"1965 - Sun Ra was one of jazz's most eccentric and original figures.  This album is from one of his most innovative periods, where he sweeps aside previous ideas of harmony and melody."

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	"1965-67 - A remastered 2CD set bringing together the albums "Albert Ayler In Greenwich Village" & "The Village Concerts" plus an additional track from 1965."

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	"1966 - One of the more accessible free jazz recordings. Sanders' soulful playing here is in contrast to his fearsome soloing on Coltrane's late albums."

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	"1966 - One of Taylor's most important and best known albums. The influence of 20th century European classical music can be detected."

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	"1966 - In a live setting Coltrane reworks two standards into lengthy improvised explorations."

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	"1967 - This series of duets with drummer Rashid Ali reaches far beyond Coltrane's bebop roots, as he contemplates the cosmos and perhaps his own mortality.  Both players are outstanding."

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	"1968 - Peter Brotzmann gathered together here some great talent from the European jazz avantgarde, including Britain's Evan Parker on tenor sax. The energy in the performances is phenominal."

The list author says:
	"An excellent book covering some of the best known Free Jazz musicians from this period"