This Is Our Music (Ornette Coleman album)

This Is Our Music is the fifth album by saxophonist Ornette Coleman, recorded in 1960 and released on Atlantic Records in March 1961. 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.

This Is Our Music
Studio album by
The Ornette Coleman Quartet
ReleasedMarch 1961
RecordedJuly 19 and 26,
August 2, 1960
GenreFree jazz
Length38:46
LabelAtlantic SD 1353
ProducerNesuhi Ertegün
The Ornette Coleman Quartet chronology
Change of the Century
(1960)		 This Is Our Music
(1961)		 Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation
(1961)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Pitchfork9.4/10 Pitchfork review
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[2]
Tom HullA–[3]

Track listing

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

Side one
No.TitleDateLength
1."Blues Connotation"July 195:16
2."Beauty Is A Rare Thing"August 27:13
3."Kaleidoscope"July 196:36
Side two
No.TitleDateLength
1."Embraceable You"July 264:54
2."Poise"August 24:40
3."Humpty Dumpty"July 265:23
4."Folk Tale"August 24:44

Personnel

References
  1. This Is Our Music at AllMusic
  2. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 45. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  3. Hull, Tom (n.d.). "Jazz (1940–50s) (Reference)". tomhull.com. Retrieved March 4, 2020.


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