This Is Our Music (Ornette Coleman album)

This Is Our Music
Studio album by The Ornette Coleman Quartet
Released	February 1961
Recorded	July 19 and 26, and August 2, 1960 Atlantic Studios, New York City
Genre	Free jazz
Length	38:46
Label	Atlantic SD 1353
Producer	Nesuhi Ertegün
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The Ornette Coleman Quartet chronology
Change of the Century (1960) This Is Our Music (1961) Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (1961)

This Is Our Music is a free jazz album by saxophonist Ornette Coleman, recorded in 1960 and originally released in 1961. It is especially notable as Coleman's only Atlantic recording to feature a standard – an unorthodox version of "Embraceable You" – and as the only album to feature the quartet lineup with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Ed Blackwell. The session includes several of Coleman's most enduring tunes: "Blues Connotation", "Beauty Is a Rare Thing", and "Kaleidoscope" in particular. "Beauty Is a Rare Thing" eventually became the title of a boxed set of all Coleman's Atlantic recordings, a set which unearthed a remarkable amount of additional material from the original two sessions.

Track listing

All compositions by Ornette Coleman except as indicated

1. "Blues Connotation" – 5:16
2. "Beauty Is a Rare Thing" – 7:13
3. "Kaleidoscope" – 6:36
4. "Embraceable You" (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 4:54
5. "Poise" – 4:40
6. "Humpty Dumpty" – 5:23
7. "Folk Tale" – 4:44

Personnel

• Ornette Coleman – alto saxophone
• Don Cherry – pocket trumpet
• Charlie Haden – double bass
• Ed Blackwell – drums