Ornette Coleman – The Art Of The Improvisers (1959-61)
Ornette Coleman – sax
Don Cherry – pocket trumpet
Charlie Haden – b
Jimmy Garrisson – b
Scott La Faro – b
Ed Blackwell – dr
Billy Higgins – dr
Rec. 1959-61
Ornette Coleman – The Shape Of Jazz To Come (1959)
Ornette Coleman – sax
Don Cherry – cornet
Charlie Haden – b
Billy Higgins – dr
Rec. in LA, California, 22. May 1959
Thelonious Monk at the Blackhawk (1960)
Thelonious Monk – p
Charlie Rouse – sax
Joe Gordon – tr
Harold Land – sax
John Ore – b
Billy Higgins – dr
Rec. in San Francisco, 29 Apr 1960
The Music of Ornette Coleman: Something Else!!!! (1958)
Ornette Coleman – sax
Don Cherry – tr
Walter Norris – p
Don Payne – b
Billy Higgins – dr
Rec. on 10 Feb and 22 Mar 1958
Sun Ra – Somewhere Else
Sun Ra and his Arkestra, featuring:
June Tyson – voc
Billy Higgins – dr
John Ore – b
Julian Priester – trombone
Don Cherry – tr
Tommy Turrentine – tr
Buster Smith – dr
John Gilmore – sax
Marshall Allen – sax
and many more musicians
Recorded in Dec 1988 and Nov 1989
Ornette Coleman – Change Of The Century (1959)
Ornette Coleman – sax
Don Cherry – tr
Charlie Haden – b
Billy Higgins – dr
Recorded on 8 & 9 Oct 1959
This will get you out of a big Jazz-Crisis!
