Grade List: Ornette Coleman

  1. Ornette Coleman: Something Else: The Music of Ornette Coleman (1958 [1988], Contemporary OJC) B+(***)
  2. Ornette Coleman: Tomorrow Is the Question (1959 [1988], Contemporary OJC) B+(**)
  3. Ornette Coleman: Genesis of Genius: The Contemporary Albums (1958-1959 [2022], Craft) B+(***)
  4. Ornette Coleman: The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959, Atlantic) A+
  5. Ornette Coleman: Change of the Century (1959 [1960], 1992), Atlantic) A-
  6. Ornette Coleman: This Is Our Music (1960 [1961], Atlantic) A-
  7. Ornette Coleman: To Whom Who Keeps a Record (1959-1960 [2007], Water) A-
  8. Ornette Coleman: Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (1960, Atlantic) A-
  9. Ornette Coleman: Ornette! (1961 [1962], Atlantic) A-
  10. Ornette Coleman: Ornette on Tenor (1961 [1962], Atlantic) B+(***)
  11. Ornette Coleman: The Art of the Improvisers (1959-1961 [1970], 1988), Atlantic) A-
  12. Ornette Coleman: Twins (1959-1961 [1971], Atlantic) A-
  13. Ornette Coleman: Beauty Is a Rare Thing (1959-1961 [1993], Rhino/Atlantic) A
  14. Ornette Coleman: Town Hall, 1962 (1962 [2008], ESP-Disk) B+(***)
  15. Ornette Coleman: Chappaqua Suite (1965, Columbia (France)) B+
  16. Ornette Coleman: At the "Golden Circle" Stockholm: Volume One (1965 [1987], Blue Note) A
  17. Ornette Coleman: At the "Golden Circle" Stockholm: Volume Two (1965 [1987], Blue Note) A-
  18. Ornette Coleman: The Empty Foxhole (1966 [1967], Blue Note) B+(***)
  19. Ornette Coleman: New York Is Now! (1968 [1989], Blue Note) A-
  20. Ornette Coleman: Love Call (1968 [1971], Blue Note) B+(**)
  21. Ornette Coleman: New York Is Now and Love Call Revisited (1968 [2021], Ezz-Thetics) A-
  22. Ornette Coleman: Ornette at 12 (1968 [1969], Impulse)
  23. Ornette Coleman: Crisis (1969 [1972], Impulse)
  24. Ornette Coleman: Friends and Neighbours: Live at Prince Street (1970, Flying Dutchman) A-
  25. Ornette Coleman: Science Fiction (1971 [1972], Columbia)
  26. Ornette Coleman: The Complete Science Fiction Sessions (1971-1972 [2000], Columbia/Legacy) A-
  27. Ornette Coleman: Skies of America (1972 [2000], Columbia/Legacy) B+
  28. Ornette Coleman: Dancing in Your Head (1973-1975 [1977], 2000), Verve) A
  29. Ornette Coleman: Ken Burns Jazz: The Definitive Ornette Coleman (1958-1975 [2000], Columbia/Legacy) A-
  30. Ornette Coleman: Body Meta (1976 [1978], 1996), Verve/Harmolodic) A-
  31. Ornette Coleman [Charlie Haden]: Soapsuds, Soapsuds (1977 [1979], 1996), Verve/Harmolodic) B+
  32. Ornette Coleman: Of Human Feelings (1979 [1982], Antilles) A
  33. Ornette Coleman: Opening the Caravan of Dreams (1985, Caravan of Dreams) B+
  34. Ornette Coleman: In All Languages (1985 [1987], Caravan of Dreams) A
  35. Ornette Coleman: The 1987 Hamburg Concert (1987 [2011], Domino) A-
  36. Ornette Coleman: Virgin Beauty (1988, Portrait) A-
  37. Ornette Coleman and Prime Time: Tone Dialing (1995, Verve/Harmolodic) B+
  38. Ornette Coleman: Sound Museum: Three Women (1996, Harmolodic/Verve) B
  39. Ornette Coleman: Sound Museum: Hidden Man (1996, Harmolodic/Verve) B+
  40. Ornette Coleman [Joachim Kühn]: Colors: Live From Leipzig (1996 [1997], Verve/Harmolodic) A-
  41. Ornette Coleman: Sound Grammar (2005 [2006], Sound Grammar) A
  42. Ornette Coleman: Celebrate Ornette (2014-2015 [2016], Song X)
  43. Ornette Coleman: Celebrate Ornette: Brooklyn Prospect Park (2014 [2016], Song X) A-

Number of A-listed albums: 25 (of 39 rated).

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