Discography for American jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman.[ Allmusic credits]Online Ornette Coleman's catalog
As bandleader Studio albums 1958: Something Else!!!! (Contemporary, 1958) 1959: Tomorrow Is the Question! (Contemporary, 1959) 1959: The Shape of Jazz to Come (Atlantic, 1959) 1959: Change of the Century (Atlantic, 1960) 1960: This Is Our Music (Atlantic, 1961) 1960: Free Jazz (Atlantic, 1961) 1961: Ornette! (Atlantic, 1962) 1961: Ornette on Tenor (Atlantic, 1962) 1965: Chappaqua Suite (Columbia, 1966) 1966: The Empty Foxhole (Blue Note, 1966) 1968: New York Is Now! (Blue Note, 1968) 1968: Love Call (Blue Note, 1971) 1971: Science Fiction (Columbia, 1972) 1972: Skies of America (Columbia, 1972) 1973-75: Dancing in Your Head (A&M, 1977) 1977: Soapsuds, Soapsuds (Artists House, 1977) 1976: Body Meta (Artists House, 1978) 1979: Of Human Feelings (Antilles, 1982) 1985: Song X (Geffen, 1986) 1987: In All Languages (Caravan of Dreams, 1987) 1988: Virgin Beauty (Portrait, 1988) 1992: Naked Lunch with Howard Shore, The London Philharmonic Orchestra (Milan, 1992) – soundtrack 1995: Tone Dialing (Harmolodic/Verve, 1995) 1996: Sound Museum: Hidden Man (Harmolodic/Verve, 1996) 1996: Sound Museum: Three Women (Harmolodic/Verve, 1996)
Live albums 1962: Town Hall, 1962 (ESP Disk, 1965) 1965: At the "Golden Circle", Vol. 1 & 2 (Blue Note, 1966) 1965: An Evening with Ornette Coleman (Polydor International, 1967) 1967: The Music of Ornette Coleman - Forms & Sounds (RCA Victor, 1967) 1968: Ornette at 12 (Impulse!, 1968) 1968: The Love Revolution (Gambit, 2005) – music previously issued on Live In Milano 1968 and The Unprecedented Music of Ornette Coleman 1970: Friends and Neighbors: Live at Prince Street (Flying Dutchman, 1972) 1970: Crisis (Impulse!, 1972) 1971: Live in Paris 1971 (Jazz Row, 2007) 1971: The Belgrade Concert (Jazz Door, 1995) 1985: Opening the Caravan of Dreams (Caravan of Dreams, 1985) 1985: Prime Design/Time Design (Caravan of Dreams, 1985) 1988: Jazzbühne Berlin '88 (Repertoire, 1990) 1996: Colors: Live from Leipzig (Harmolodic/Verve, 1997) 2005: Sound Grammar (Sound Grammar, 2006) 2009: New Vocabulary (System Dialing, 2014)
Compilations The Art of the Improvisers (Atlantic, 1970) – rec. 1959-61 Twins (Atlantic, 1971) – rec. 1961 To Whom Who Keeps a Record (Atlantic, 1975) – rec. 1959-60 Who's Crazy? Vol. 1 & 2 (Atmosphere, 1979) – rec. 1966 Broken Shadows (Columbia, 1982) – rec. 1971 Beauty Is a Rare Thing (Rhino/Atlantic, 1995) The Complete Science Fiction Sessions (Columbia, 2000) The Ornette Coleman Legacy (Atlantic, 2018) – rec. 1960-61
As sideman With Paul Bley 1958: Live at the Hilcrest Club 1958 (Inner City, 1976) 1958: Coleman Classics Volume 1 (Improvising Artists, 1977)
With Charlie Haden 1976: Closeness (Horizon, 1976) 1976: The Golden Number (A&M, 1977)
With Jamaaladeen Tacuma 1983–84: Renaissance Man (Gramavision, 1984) 2010: For the Love of Ornette (Jazzwerkstatt, 2010)
With others Geri Allen, Eyes in the Back of Your Head (Blue Note, 1997) Louis Armstrong, Louis Armstrong and His Friends (Flying Dutchman/Amsterdam, 1970) Joe Henry, Scar (Mammoth, 2001) Jackie McLean, New and Old Gospel (Blue Note, 1968) – rec. 1967 Yoko Ono, Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band on the track "AOS" (Apple, 1970) Lou Reed, The Raven (RCA, 2003) Gunther Schuller, Jazz Abstractions (Atlantic, 1960) Bob Thiele, Head Start (Flying Dutchman, 1967) James Blood Ulmer, Tales of Captain Black (Artists House, 1978) Sonny Rollins, Road Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy, 2011)
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