The Avant-Garde

Tracklist

• 1
  Cherryco
  6:47
• 2
  Focus on Sanity
  12:14
• 3
  The Blessing
  7:53
• 4
  The Invisible
  4:13
• 5
  Bemsha Swing
  5:07
• 6
  Focus on Sanity (original Ornette Coleman version)

  Ornette Coleman
  6:53
• 7
  The Blessing (original Ornette Coleman version)

  The Ornette Coleman Quartet
  4:48
• 8
  The Invisible (original Ornette Coleman version)

  The Ornette Coleman Quartet
  4:17
• 9
  The Blessing (live Ornette Coleman version)

  The Ornette Coleman Quartet
  9:36

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John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman 1963

My Favorite Things

My Favorite Things 1961

Lush Life

Lush Life 1961

Giant Steps

Giant Steps 1960

Soultrane

Soultrane 1958

Release credits

• Billy Higgins
  drums (drum set) [6-9]
• Charlie Haden
  double bass [1, 3, 6, 9]
• Don Cherry
  cornet [6-8], trumpet [1-5, 9]
• Don Payne
  double bass [7-8]
• Ed Blackwell
  drums (drum set) [1-5]
• John Coltrane
  soprano saxophone [3-4], tenor saxophone [1-2, 4-5]
• Nesuhi Ertegun
  producer [1-5]
• Ornette Coleman
  alto saxophone [6-9]
• Paul Bley
  piano [9]
• Percy Heath
  double bass [2, 4-5]
• Walter Norris
  piano accordion [7-8]

Issues

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  12" Vinyl (stereo)
  April 1966
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  12" Vinyl (mono)
  1966
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  The Avant-Garde

  12" Vinyl
  October 1971
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  The Avant-Garde

  CD
  1982
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  The Avant-Garde

  CD
  25 October 1988
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  The Avant-Garde

  CD
  22 February 1990
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  The Avant-Garde

  CD (Atlantic jazz masters)
  2004
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  The Avant-Garde

  CD
  22 November 2006
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  The Avant-Garde

  CD
  25 April 2012
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  Digital Media
  2015
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  CD
  2016
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  12" Vinyl
  14 January 2020
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  The Avant-Garde

  CD (made in Germany)
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