This Is Our Music (Ornette Coleman album)

Infobox Album
Name = This Is Our Music
Type = studio
Artist = Ornette Coleman


Released = 1960
Recorded = July 1960
Genre = Free jazz
Length = 38:48
Label = Atlantic
Producer = Nesuhi Ertegün
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:9t3m968odep7 link]
Last album = "Change of the Century"
(1960)
This album = "This Is Our Music"
(1960)
Next album = ""
(1960)

"This Is Our Music" is a free jazz album, recorded and originally released in 1960, by saxophonist Ornette Coleman (see 1960 in music). It is especially notable as Coleman's only Atlantic recording to feature a standard – an unorthodox version of "Embraceable You" – and as the only album to feature the "classic" quartet lineup with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Ed Blackwell. The session includes several of Coleman's most enduring tunes: "Blues Connotation", "Beauty Is a Rare Thing", and "Kaleidoscope" in particular. ("Beauty Is a Rare Thing" eventually became the title of a boxed set of all Coleman's Atlantic recordings, a set which unearthed a remarkable amount of additional material from the original two sessions.)

Track listing

(all songs written by Ornette Coleman, except "Embraceable You", by George and Ira Gershwin)
#"Blues Connotation" – 5:14
#"Beauty Is a Rare Thing" – 7:12
#"Kaleidoscope" – 6:33
#"Embraceable You" – 4:54
#"Poise" – 4:37
#"Humpty Dumpty" – 5:20
#"Folk Tale" – 4:46

Personnel

*Ornette Coleman – alto saxophone
*Don Cherry – pocket trumpet
*Charlie Haden – bass
*Ed Blackwell – drums