This Is Our Music (Ornette Coleman album)

This Is Our Music

Released

February 1961

Recorded

July 19 and 26,
August 2, 1960

Length

38:46

Atlantic SD 1353

Change of the Century
(1960)

This Is Our Music
(1961)

Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation
(1961)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Pitchfork Media	9.4/10 Pitchfork review
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[2]

This Is Our Music is the fifth album by saxophonist Ornette Coleman, recorded in 1960 and released on Atlantic Records in 1961, his third for the label. It is the first with drummer Ed Blackwell replacing his predecessor Billy Higgins in the Coleman Quartet, and is the only one of Coleman's Atlantic albums to include a standard, in this case a version of "Embraceable You" by George and Ira Gershwin. Two recording sessions for the album took place in July and one in August 1960 at Atlantic Studios in New York City. The seven selections for this album were culled from 23 masters recorded over the three sessions. The 16 outtakes from the two July sessions would later appear on the 1970s compilations The Art of the Improvisers, Twins, and To Whom Who Keeps A Record, along with the 1993 box set Beauty Is A Rare Thing, named for a track on this album.

Track listing

All compositions by Ornette Coleman except "Embraceable You" by George and Ira Gershwin.

No.	Title	Date	Length
1.	"Blues Connotation"	July 19	5:16
2.	"Beauty Is A Rare Thing"	August 2	7:13
3.	"Kaleidoscope"	July 19	6:36

No.	Title	Date	Length
1.	"Embraceable You"	July 26	4:54
2.	"Poise"	August 2	4:40
3.	"Humpty Dumpty"	July 26	5:23
4.	"Folk Tale"	August 2	4:44

↑ This Is Our Music at AllMusic
↑ Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 45. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

Ornette Coleman

Studio albums	Something Else!!!! (1958) Tomorrow Is the Question! (1959) The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959) Change of the Century (1959) This Is Our Music (1960) Free Jazz (1960) Ornette! (1961) Ornette on Tenor (1961) Chappaqua Suite (1965) The Empty Foxhole (1966) New York Is Now! (1968) Love Call (1968) Ornette at 12 (1968) Science Fiction (1971) Skies of America (1972) Dancing in Your Head (1976) Body Meta (1976) Soapsuds, Soapsuds (1977) Of Human Feelings (1982) Song X (1986) In All Languages (1987) Virgin Beauty (1988) Tone Dialing (1995) Sound Museum: Hidden Man (1996) Sound Museum: Three Women (1996)

Compilation albums	The Art of the Improvisers (1970) Twins (1971) To Whom Who Keeps a Record (1975) Broken Shadows (1982) Beauty Is a Rare Thing (1995)

Live albums	Town Hall, 1962 (1965) At the "Golden Circle" Vol. 1 & 2 (1965) Crisis (1969) Friends and Neighbors: Live at Prince Street (1970) Opening the Caravan of Dreams (1985) Prime Design/Time Design (1986) Colors: Live from Leipzig (1997) Sound Grammar (2006)

Related	Discography

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