This Is Our Music – The Ornette Coleman Quartet

180 gram audiophile Vinyl LP

From Wikipedia:

This Is Our Music is the fifth album by saxophonist Ornette Coleman, recorded in 1960 and released on Atlantic Records in March 1961. It is the first with drummer Ed Blackwell replacing his predecessor Billy Higgins in the Coleman Quartet, and is the only one of Coleman’s Atlantic albums to include a standard, in this case a version of “Embraceable You” by George and Ira Gershwin.

Two recording sessions for the album took place in July and one in August 1960 at Atlantic Studios in New York City. The seven selections for this album were culled from 23 masters recorded over the three sessions. The 16 outtakes from the two July sessions would later appear on the 1970s compilations The Art of the Improvisers, Twins, and To Whom Who Keeps A Record, along with the 1993 box set Beauty Is A Rare Thing, named for a track on this album. Coleman was evidently pleased with the recordings, stating: “In July, 1960… we did thirty tunes in three weeks. All originals. Everything I’ve ever recorded has been a piece of my own. Until I heard these last tapes, I hadn’t realized all the different approaches we’d been developing in the past few months. I think the new albums will give the public and the musicians a more accurate idea of what we’re trying to do.”