Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation

Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation is the sixth album by jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman, released on Atlantic Records in September 1961: the fourth of Coleman's six albums for the label. Its title named the then-nascent free jazz movement. The recording session took place on December 21, 1960, at A&R Studios in New York City. The sole outtake from the album session, "First Take," was later released on the 1971 compilation Twins and subsequent CD reissues of Free Jazz.

Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation
Studio album by
Ornette Coleman
ReleasedSeptember 1961
RecordedDecember 21, 1960 (1960-12-21)
GenreFree jazz
Length37:10
LabelAtlantic SD 1364
ProducerNesuhi Ertegün
Ornette Coleman chronology
This Is Our Music
(1961)
Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation
(1961)
Ornette!
(1962)
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Down Beat
Allmusic
The Penguin Guide to Jazz
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The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
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