Rejoicing

Ornette Coleman · 1959 · Thème sautillant, ancêtre du free bop

Context

Piece from the album Tomorrow Is the Question!, released in November 1959 on Contemporary. The duo playing of Coleman and Cherry here foreshadows the Atlantic records that follow.

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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