Product description (6 audio CD set) Copyright 1993 Atlantic Recording Corp, and Rhino Records, Inc, Santa Monica Blvd. ISBN: 1-56826-275-2. Featuring Ornette Coleman (alto & tenor sax), Don Cherry (pocket trumpet cornet), Charlie Haden (bass), Billy Higgins (drums), Ed Blackwell (drums), WITH: Eric Dolphy (bass, clarinet, alto sax, flute), Bill Evans (piano), Jimmy Garrison (bass), Jim Hall (guitar), Freddie Hubbard (trumpet), Scott Lafaro (bass). ** All selections produced by Nesuhi Ertegun, except "Abstraction" & "Varainats on a Theme of Thelonius Monk(Criss-Cross)". Produced by John Lewis & Nesuhi Ertegun. **Digitally remastered from the original sterio master tapes by Stephan Innocenzi. Atlantic Studios. INCLUDES A 72 PAGE BOOKLET (With complete track by track credits and discography, essay by Robert Palmer, a compolayion of interview excerps with Ornette Coleman, numerous photographs and introductions by Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry. Amazon.com The most astonishing thing about hearing Ornette Coleman's Atlantic recordings today is how accessible they seem. Back in the early '60s, when they were first released with immodest titles like "Change of the Century" and "The Shape of Jazz to Come," all we could hear was the way the alto saxophonist and his quartet felt free to disregard the usual bounds of keys and measures in their solos. Because Coleman's music was, in fact, the shape of jazz to come, his innovations don't seem so novel now. What we hear instead are the beauty of Coleman's melodies and the passionate bluesiness of his quartet's playing. --Geoffrey Himes
