Town Hall, 1962

Town Hall, 1962 is an album by Ornette Coleman released on the ESP-Disk label. It was the first recording featuring at its heart his new trio after the ensemble of his Atlantic years. The album provides partial documentation of a concert featuring several ensembles which had been organised and promoted by Coleman himself, in his search for artistic and financial independence. Even though the concert would be followed by two years of absence from public performance and recording, it is indicative of the direction which Coleman's music would take on his return in 1965, with the core trio and the introduction of string instrument textures.

Town Hall, 1962
Live album by
Ornette Coleman
Released1965
Recorded21 December 1962
GenreFree jazz
Avant-garde jazz
Length45:14
LabelESP-Disk
Ornette Coleman chronology
Ornette on Tenor
(1962)		 Town Hall, 1962
(1965)		 Chappaqua Suite
(1965)

Reception

Written four decades after release, the Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 2½ stars and stated "Although Ornette's string writing (which leaves no room for improvising) is pretty well outside of jazz, his playing on the other tracks holds one's interest throughout".[1]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Tom HullB+[2]

Track listing

All tracks written by Ornette Coleman.

Side A
  1. "Doughnut"
  2. "Sadness"
  3. "Dedication to Poets and Writers"

Side B
  1. "The Ark"

Personnel
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References
  1. Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed November 30, 2010
  2. Hull, Tom (n.d.). "Jazz (1940–50s) (Reference)". tomhull.com. Retrieved March 4, 2020.

^ Spellman, A. B. (1985). Four Lives in the Bebop Business. Limelight. ISBN 0-87910-042-7.

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