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Beauty Is a Rare Thing: the Complete Atlantic Recordings

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TypeBoxed set
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GenresAvant-garde Jazz, Free Jazz
LabelsRhino Records
Length424:09
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Track listing (Songs)

Title Length Rating Votes
Disc 1
1. Focus on Sanity 6:49 - 0
2. Chronology 6:04 - 0
3. Peace 9:02 - 0
4. Congeniality 6:44 - 0
5. Lonely Woman 4:57 - 0
6. Monk and the Nun 5:53 - 0
7. Just for You 3:51 - 0
8. Eventually 4:20 - 0
9. Una muy bonita 5:59 - 0
10. Bird Food 5:28 - 0
11. Change of the Century 4:41 - 0
12. Music Always 5:29 - 0
Disc 2
1. The Face of the Bass 6:55 - 0
2. Forerunner 5:13 - 0
3. Free 6:20 - 0
4. The Circle With a Hole in the Middle 4:52 - 0
5. Ramblin' 6:35 - 0
6. Little Symphony 5:14 - 0
7. The Tribes of New York (Previously Unreleased) 4:33 - 0
8. Kaleidoscope 6:34 - 0
9. Rise and Shine (Previously Unreleased) 6:11 - 0
10. Mr. and Mrs. People (Previously Unreleased) 4:40 - 0
11. Blues Connotation 5:17 - 0
12. I Heard It Over the Radio (Previously Unreleased) 6:24 - 0
Disc 3
1. P.S. Unless One Has (Blues Connotation No. 2) 5:53 - 0
2. Revolving Doors (Previously Unreleased) 4:26 - 0
3. Brings Goodness 6:38 - 0
4. Joy of a Toy 4:55 - 0
5. To Us 4:32 - 0
6. Humpty Dumpty 5:21 - 0
7. The Fifth of Beethoven 6:37 - 0
8. Motive for Its Use 5:39 - 0
9. Moon Inhabitants 4:31 - 0
10. The Legend of Bebop 7:15 - 0
11. Some Other 7:20 - 0
12. Embraceable You 4:55 - 0
13. All 4:30 - 0
Disc 4
1. Folk Tale 4:47 - 0
2. Poise 4:37 - 0
3. Beauty Is a Rare Thing 7:13 - 0
4. First Take 17:03 - 0
5. Free Jazz 37:03 - 0
Disc 5
1. Proof Readers (Previously Unreleased) 10:25 - 0
2. W.R.U. 16:24 - 0
3. Check Up 10:10 - 0
4. T. &. T. 4:35 - 0
5. C. & D. 13:10 - 0
6. R.P.D.D. 9:38 - 0
7. The Alchemy of Scott LaFaro 9:50 - 0
Disc 6
1. Eos 6:35 - 0
2. Enfant 6:26 - 0
3. Ecars 7:35 - 0
4. Cross Breeding 11:17 - 0
5. Harlem's Manhattan 8:10 - 0
6. Mapa 9:05 - 0
7. Abstraction 4:07 - 0
8. Variations on a Theme of Thelonious Monk (Criss-Cross) 15:22 - 0
i. Variant I
ii. Variant II
iii. Variant III
iv. Variant IV

Line-up (Members)

  • Ornette Coleman : Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone
  • Don Cherry : Pocket Trumpet, Cornet
  • Charlie Haden : Bass
  • Scott LaFaro : Bass
  • Jimmy Garrison : Bass
  • Billy Higgins : Drums
  • Ed Blackwell : Drums

Guest / session musicians

  • Freddie Hubbard : Trumpet
  • Eric Dolphy : Bass Clarinet
  • Charles Libove, Roland Vamos : Violins
  • Harry Zaratzian : Viola
  • Joseph Tekula : Cello
  • Robert DiDomenica : Flute
  • Eddie Costa : Vibraphone
  • Bill Evans : Piano
  • Jim Hall : Guitar
  • Alvin Brehm : Bass
  • George Duvivier : Bass
  • Sticks Evans : Drums
  • Gunther Schuller : Arranger, Conductor

Ornette Coleman Discography

Album title Type Released Rating Votes Reviews
(1958) Studio - 0 0
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(1959) Studio 95 1 0
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(2006) Live - 0 0