Tomorrow Is the Question!

__notoc__Infobox Album
Name = Tomorrow Is the Question!
Type = studio
Artist = Ornette Coleman


Released = 1959
Recorded = January 16, 1959 – March 10, 1959
Genre = Jazz
Length = 42:22
Label = Contemporary
Producer = Lester Koenig
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://wm10.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gzfexqtgldfe link]
*Yahoo! Music (favorable) [http://music.yahoo.com/read/review/12028435 link]
Last album = "" (1958)
This album = "Tomorrow Is the Question!" (1959)
Next album = "The Shape of Jazz to Come" (1959)

"Tomorrow Is the Question!", subtitled "The New Music of Ornette Coleman", is the second album by American jazz musician Ornette Coleman, originally released in 1959 by the Contemporary label. It is Coleman's last album for the label before beginning his successful multi-album series for Atlantic Records in 1959.

As well as regular sideman Don Cherry on trumpet, the album features bassists Percy Heath and Red Mitchell, and drummer Shelly Manne. Unlike Coleman's debut "Something Else!!!!", on which he was contractually obliged to feature a pianist, there is no piano on the album.cite web
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Reception

The album generally received better press than did "Something Else!!!!". Allmusic's Thom Jurek notes the interplay of Coleman and Cherry on tunes he described as "knottier and tighter in their arrangement style" than those of the previous album. [cite web
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accessdate = 2008-01-26] Ekkehard Jost, in his book "Free Jazz", noted that "as early as the 1958/59 recordings for Contemporary, the most pronounced features of Coleman's saxophone playing were set. His bent for improvisations that were largely unrestrained harmonically is evident, even in pieces whose outward make-up is anything but revolutionary."cite book
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Release history

Originally released as an LP by Contemporary Records in 1959, the album was later reissued on the Original Jazz Classics label on July 1, 1991.

Track listing

"All tracks written by Ornette Coleman."
#"Tomorrow Is the Question!" – 3:09
#"Tears Inside" – 5:00
#"Mind and Time" – 3:08
#"Compassion" – 4:37
#"Giggin'" – 3:19
#"Rejoicing" – 4:01
#"Lorraine" – 5:55
#"Turnaround" – 7:58
#"Endless" – 5:18

Personnel

Performance

* Ornette Coleman – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone
* Don Cherry – trumpet
* Percy Heath – bass (tracks 1–6)
* Shelly Manne – drums
* Red Mitchell – bass (tracks 7–9)

Production

* Roy DuNann – engineer
* Nat Hentoff – liner notes
* Lester Koenig – producer

References

External links

* [http://www.ornettecoleman.com Ornette Coleman official site]