Limited ten 180gm vinyl LP set. Ornette Coleman recorded one of the greatest bodies of work in jazz during a 22-month-long burst of creativity. Between 1959 and 1961, the saxophonist and composer released six studio albums on Atlantic Records that helped usher in the avant-garde, free jazz movement. Those albums, along more than two hours of session outtakes, are featured together in the 10-LP boxed set featuring newly remastered audio by John Webber at AIR Studios. Several of these titles are long out-of-print on vinyl. The Ornette Coleman Legacy, featuring six songs originally released for the first time in 1993 as part of Rhino's CD boxed set Beauty Is A Rare Thing, making it's vinyl debut. Among the albums included in The Atlantic Years are three compilations that Atlantic released in the 1970's: The Art Of Improvisers (1970), Twins (1971), and To Whom Who Keeps A Record (1975.) These albums include outtakes from recording sessions for all six of Coleman's studio albums. LP 1 - Lonely Woman, Eventually, Peace, Focus on Sanity, Congeniality, Chronology, LP 2 - Ramblin', Free, The Face of the Bass, Forerunner, Bird Food, Una Muy Bonita, 7 Change of the Century, LP 3 - P.S. Unless One Has (Blues Connotation), Beauty Is a Rare Thing, Kaleidoscope, Embraceable You, Poise, Humpty Dumpty, Folk Tale, LP 4 - Free Jazz (Part 1), Free Jazz-Part 2, LP 5 - W.R.U. (Remastered Version), T ; T (Remastered Version), C. ; D. (Remastered Version), R.P.D.D (Remastered Version), LP 6 - Cross Breeding, Mapa, Enfant, Eos, Ecars, LP 7 - the Circle with a Hole in the Middle, Just for You, The Fifth of Beethoven, The Alchemy of Scott Lafaro, Moon Inhabitants, The Legend of Bebop, Harlem's Manhattan, LP 8 - First Take, Little Symphony, Monk and the Nun, Check Up, Joy of a Toy, LP 9 - Music Always, Brings Goodness, To Us, All, P.S. Unless One Has (Blues Connotation No. 2), Some Other, Motive for It's Use, LP 10 - Rise and Shine, The Tribes of New York, I Heard It Over the Radio, Revolving Doors, Mr. And Mrs. People, Proof Readers
