Focus on Sanity

Ornette Coleman · 1959 · Titre qui devait nommer l'album

Context

Ballad recorded on October 9, 1956, with the same quintet as the first two tracks. It is the only track on the album on which Monk plays celesta.

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)
• Congeniality (1959)
• Chronology (1959)
• Tomorrow Is the Question! (1959)

Sources

• EN: The Shape of Jazz to Come

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