This Is Our Music

This Is Our Music is the fifth studio album by the American jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman, recorded in July and August 1960 and released on Atlantic Records in March 1961. It was Coleman's first album with drummer Ed Blackwell, and his only album on Atlantic to include a standard, in this case a version of "Embraceable You" by George and Ira Gershwin. The album was recorded at Atlantic Studios in New York City over the course of three sessions on July 19 and 26 and August 2, 1960, with seven selections culled from 23 masters. The outtakes from the two July sessions would later appear on the 1970s compilations The Art of the Improvisers, Twins, and To Whom Who Keeps A Record, along with the 1993 box set Beauty Is A Rare Thing, which collected all of the material that Coleman recorded for Atlantic from 1959 to 1961. Coleman was pleased with the recordings, stating: "In July, 1960... we did thirty tunes in three weeks. All originals. Everything I've ever recorded has been a piece of my own. Until I heard these last tapes, I hadn't realized all the different approaches we'd been developing in the past few months.

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