Crisis (Ornette Coleman album)

Crisis
Live album by Ornette Coleman
Released 1972
Recorded March 22, 1969
Genre Jazz
Length 43:56
Label Impulse!
Ornette Coleman chronology
Ornette at 12
(1968)
Crisis
(1969)
Friends and Neighbors: Live at Prince Street
(1970)

Crisis is a live album by the American jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman recorded at New York University in 1969 and released on the Impulse! label.[1]

Reception

Brian Olewnick's Allmusic review awarded the album 4½ stars and stated "Crisis somehow lacks the reputation of the revolutionary Coleman albums from early in his career, but on purely musical grounds it ranks among his most satisfying works".[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Ornette Coleman except as indicated
  1. "Broken Shadows" - 5:59
  2. "Comme Il Faut" - 14:26
  3. "Song for Ché" (Charlie Haden) - 11:32
  4. "Space Jungle" - 5:20
  5. "Trouble in the East" - 6:39

Personnel

References

  1. Ornette Coleman discography accessed November 11, 2010
  2. 1 2 Olewnick, B. Allmusic Review accessed November 11, 2010
  3. Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 45. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
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