Ornette!

Ornette! is the seventh album by alto saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman, released in February 1962 on Atlantic Records.[1][2] The album features Scott LaFaro in place of Charlie Haden, who had left the Quartet but would work again with Coleman in the future.

Ornette!
Studio album by Ornette Coleman
Released	February 1962 (1962-02)[1][2]
Recorded	January 31, 1961
Genre	Free jazz Avant-garde jazz
Length	43:49
Label	Atlantic 1378
Ornette Coleman chronology
Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (1961) Ornette! (1962) Ornette on Tenor (1961)

The recording session took place on January 31, 1961, at Atlantic Studios in New York City. Three outtakes from the session, "Proof Readers," "Check Up," and "The Alchemy of Scott LaFaro" would later appear respectively on the 1993 box set Beauty Is A Rare Thing, and on 1970s compilations Twins and The Art of the Improvisers.

The titles of the compositions are initialisms derived from works by Sigmund Freud: Wit and its Relation to the Unconscious, Totem and Taboo, Civilization and its Discontents, and the essay Relation of the Poet to Day Dreaming.[3]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Down Beat	[4]
Allmusic	[5]
Tom Hull	A–[6]

Track listing

All compositions by Ornette Coleman.

Side one

No.	Title	Length
1.	"W.R.U."	16:25
2.	"T. & T."	4:35

Side two

No.	Title	Length
1.	"C. & D."	13:10
2.	"R.P.D.D."	9:39

Personnel

• Ornette Coleman — alto saxophone
• Don Cherry — pocket trumpet
• Scott LaFaro — bass
• Ed Blackwell — drums

References

1. Editorial Staff, Cash Box (24 February 1962). "February LP Releases" (PDF). Cash Box. The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc., NY. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
2. Editorial Staff, Billboard (24 February 1962). "Ornette!". Billboard Music Week. The Billboard Publishing Co. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
3. Brian Olewnick, "Review: Ornette!", AllMusic. Retrieved May 31, 2011.
4. Down Beat: May 24, 1962 vol. 29, no. 11
5. Allmusic review
6. Hull, Tom (n.d.). "Jazz (1940–50s) (Reference)". tomhull.com. Retrieved March 4, 2020.