Compassion

Ornette Coleman · 1959 · Ballade ouverte, sans piano

Context

Piece from Spiritual Unity, recorded on July 10, 1964 in New York (6 min 46 s), the first record on the ESP-Disk label. Ayler plays in a trio with Gary Peacock and Sunny Murray; the album is considered a landmark of free jazz.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Free jazz. Among the origins and influences of Free jazz: Tristano School, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's), Modal.

By the same artist

• Lonely Woman (1959)
• Eventually (1959)
• Peace (1959)
• Focus on Sanity (1959)
• Congeniality (1959)
• Chronology (1959)

Sources

• EN: Tomorrow Is the Question!

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