Ornette Coleman discography
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Discography for American jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman.
As bandleader
Studio albums
1958: Something Else!!!! (Contemporary, 1958)
1959: Tomorrow Is the Question! (Contemporary, 1959)
1959: The Shape of Jazz to Come (Atlantic, 1959)
1959: Change of the Century (Atlantic, 1960)
1960: This Is Our Music (Atlantic, 1961)
1960: Free Jazz (Atlantic, 1961)
1961: Ornette! (Atlantic, 1962)
1961: Ornette on Tenor (Atlantic, 1962)
1965: Chappaqua Suite (Columbia, 1966)
1966: The Empty Foxhole (Blue Note, 1966)
1968: New York Is Now! (Blue Note, 1968)
1968: Love Call (Blue Note, 1971)
1971: Science Fiction (Columbia, 1972)
1972: Skies of America (Columbia, 1972)
1973-75: Dancing in Your Head (A&M, 1977)
1977: Soapsuds, Soapsuds (Artists House, 1977)
1976: Body Meta (Artists House, 1978)
1979: Of Human Feelings (Antilles, 1982)
1985: Song X (Geffen, 1986)
1987: In All Languages (Caravan of Dreams, 1987)
1988: Virgin Beauty (Portrait, 1988)
1992: Naked Lunch with Howard Shore, The London Philharmonic Orchestra (Milan, 1992) – soundtrack
1995: Tone Dialing (Harmolodic/Verve, 1995)
1996: Sound Museum: Hidden Man (Harmolodic/Verve, 1996)
1996: Sound Museum: Three Women (Harmolodic/Verve, 1996)
Live albums
1962: Town Hall, 1962 (ESP Disk, 1965)
1965: At the "Golden Circle", Vol. 1 & 2 (Blue Note, 1966)
1965: An Evening with Ornette Coleman (Polydor International, 1967)
1967: The Music of Ornette Coleman - Forms & Sounds (RCA Victor, 1967)
1968: Ornette at 12 (Impulse!, 1968)
1968: The Love Revolution (Gambit, 2005) – music previously issued on Live In Milano 1968 and The Unprecedented Music of Ornette Coleman
1970: Friends and Neighbors: Live at Prince Street (Flying Dutchman, 1972)
1970: Crisis (Impulse!, 1972)
1971: Live in Paris 1971 (Jazz Row, 2007)
1971: The Belgrade Concert (Jazz Door, 1995)
1985: Opening the Caravan of Dreams (Caravan of Dreams, 1985)
1985: Prime Design/Time Design (Caravan of Dreams, 1985)
1988: Jazzbühne Berlin '88 (Repertoire, 1990)
1996: Colors: Live from Leipzig (Harmolodic/Verve, 1997)
2005: Sound Grammar (Sound Grammar, 2006)
2009: New Vocabulary (System Dialing, 2014)
Compilations
The Art of the Improvisers (Atlantic, 1970) – rec. 1959-61
Twins (Atlantic, 1971) – rec. 1961
To Whom Who Keeps a Record (Atlantic, 1975) – rec. 1959-60
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