Free Jazz was the breakthrough that revealed how Coleman’s compositional impetus could stimulate the improvisational responses of a larger ensemble in interrelated, additionally complex ways. Ornette!, recorded five weeks later, is the only document we have of Scott LaFaro in the quartet. The exclamation point of the title is an indication of the album’s dominant mood. – Art Lange

Program

1. Free Jazz 37:04 2. W.R.U. 15:41 3. T. & T. 4:36 4. C. & D. 12:54 5. R.P.D.D. 9:39