Paul Bley

Ornette Coleman Quintet - Complete Live At The Hillcrest Club (1958) {2007 Gambit Records 69272}
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© 1958, 2007 Gambit Records | 69272
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Modern Creative / Saxophone

Ornette Coleman's epic 1959 LPs The Shape of Jazz to Come and Change of the Century were pivot points in modern post-bop jazz and early creative music. This recording is a prelude to those epics, a live two-night engagement in October of 1958 at the Hillcrest Club in Los Angeles. The Coleman quintet, with trumpeter Don Cherry, bassist Charlie Haden, and drummer Billy Higgins, plus a then-young pianist Paul Bley, sets up that new shape of jazz. This eight-selection set features three of Coleman's signature originals, two standards, and three lesser-known, fairly rare pieces that Coleman did at the time.

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