Best track on Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz to Come

I always think of these Ornette albums, and a lot of Thelonious Monk's work, as really good "gateway jazz" in the sense that you could play them for a little kid and the kid would probably really like them because they sound fun and they have a lot of almost cartoony energy. I mean, close your eyes and listen to Thelonious Monk's Columbia quartet albums and picture Rowlf the Dog playing the music.

Programmed this in the proper order from the Beauty Is a Rare Thing box. (The mania for complete recordings boxes in the '90s produced some lovely packages, this one included, but I tend to wish I just had the albums these days). "Eventually" is a gas, and I voted for it.

unperson OTM.

(The mania for complete recordings boxes in the '90s produced some lovely packages, this one included, but I tend to wish I just had the albums these days).

Agree 100%. I have this box and the John Coltrane Atlantic box, The Heavyweight Champion, and I just wind up listening to my digital re-assemblages of the actual albums 99% of the time.

I also went in on the Beauty Is A Rare Thing box back then, easily one of the very best of these collections

I haven't listened to this in so long. I'd forgotten how much it swings. I've been watching Mad Men and the music they use makes it seem like the show is from the 30s or something. Meanwhile, this quartet are ripping it up in Texas and it feels like the next century.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Heh.

honestly a little bummed about no votes for "Focus on Sanity"

This is the Vinyl Me Please "Classics" title for October.

...and it's in MONO!