Ornette Coleman’s most important recordings set for 10xLP vinyl box set reissue

Including The Shape Of Jazz To Come, This Is Our Music, and Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation.

Six of Ornette Coleman’s seminal albums are set to be reissued in a new 10xLP box set, Ornette Coleman: the Atlantic Years, via Rhino this May.

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Collecting music released in a fiercely productive period between 1959 and 1961, the box set features The Shape Of Jazz To Come (1959), Change Of The Century (1959), This Is Our Music (1960), Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (1960), Ornette! (1961), and Ornette On Tenor (1961), as well as three compilations and studio outtakes released in the ’70s: The Art Of Improvisers (1970), Twins (1971), and To Whom Who Keeps A Record (1975).

The set is completed with the first-time vinyl release of The Ornette Coleman Legacy, featuring six tracks that were originally released in 1993, new liner notes by Ben Ratliff and photos by jazz photographer Lee Friedlander.

Some of the most important and trailblazing music of the 20th century, Ornette’s Atlantic albums tore through the jazz rule book, laying the foundations for the avant-garde improvisors of the ’60s and ’70s.

Ornette Coleman: the Atlantic Years will be released on 11th May vi Rhino records. Pre-order a copy here.