Beauty Is a Rare Thing - Ornette Coleman

Compilation by Ornette Coleman

Released 16 November 1993

CD 1
1
Focus on Sanity
6:51
2
Chronology
6:07
3
Peace
9:04
4
Congeniality
6:47
5
Lonely Woman
4:59
6
Monk and the Nun
5:56
7
Just for You
3:53
8
Eventually
4:23
9
Una muy bonita
6:00
10
Bird Food
5:30
3.0 ★
11
Change of the Century
4:44
12
Music Always
5:29
CD 2
1
The Face of the Bass
6:57
2
Forerunner
5:15
3
Free
6:22
4
The Circle With a Hole in the Middle
4:53
5
Ramblin’
6:37
6
Little Symphony
5:16
7
The Tribes of New York
4:34
8
Kaleidoscope
6:36
9
Rise and Shine
6:13
10
Mr. and Mrs. People
4:42
11
Blues Connotation
5:18
12
I Heard It Over the Radio
6:23
CD 3
1
P.S. Unless One Has (Blues Connotation No. 2)
5:54
2
Revolving Doors
4:28
3
Brings Goodness
6:39
4
Joy of a Toy
4:57
5
To Us
4:36
6
Humpty Dumpty
5:24
7
The Fifth of Beethoven
6:37
8
Motive for Its Use
5:41
9
Moon Inhabitants
4:33
10
The Legend of Bebop
7:18
11
Some Other
7:23
12
Embraceable You
4:56
13
All
4:30
CD 4
1
Folk Tale
4:48
2
Poise
4:38
3
Beauty Is a Rare Thing
7:14
4
First Take
17:05
5
Free Jazz
37:03
CD 5
1
Proof Readers
10:27
2
W.R.U.
16:27
3
Check Up
10:11
4
T. & T.
4:38
5
C. & D.
13:12
6
R.P.D.D.
9:40
7
The Alchemy of Scott LaFaro
9:49
CD 6
1
Eos
6:37
2
Enfant
6:28
3
Ecars
7:37
4
Cross Breeding
11:21
5
Harlem’s Manhattan
8:11
6
Mapa
9:07
7
Abstraction
4:10
4.0 ★
8
Variants on a Theme of Thelonious Monk (Criss‐Cross): Variant I / Variant II / Variant III / Variant IV
15:22

Alvin Brehm
double bass [7]
Bill Evans
piano [8]
Billy Higgins
drums (drum set) [1.1-5, 1.8-11, 2.1-5, 4.4-5]
Charles Libove
violin [7]
Charlie Haden
double bass [2.1-6, 1.1-5, 1.8-11, 4.4-5]
Dayton “Bones” Howe
recording [1.9-11, 2.1-3, 2.5]
Don Cherry
cornet [1-5, 8], pocket trumpet [2.1-3, 2.5, 1.9-11, 4.4], trumpet [5.4, 2.4, 2.6, 6.1-4]
Ed Blackwell
drums (drum set) [6.1-4, 2.6, 4.4, 5.4]
Eddie Costa
vibraphone [8]
Eric Dolphy
alto saxophone [8], bass clarinet [6.8, 4.4-5], flute [8]
Freddie Hubbard
trumpet [4-5]
Geoffrey Haslam
mix [6]
George Duvivier
double bass [8]
Harry Zaratzian
viola [7]
Jim Hall
guitar [7-8]
Jimmy Garrison
double bass [1-4]
John Lewis
task [7]
Joseph Tekula
cello [7]
Nesuhi Ertegun
producer [1.5, 1.9-11, 2.1-3, 2.5], task [7]
Ornette Coleman
alto saxophone [5.4, 4.4, 6.7-8, 1.1-5, 1.8-11, 2.1-6], tenor saxophone [1-4]
Phil Iehle
recording [6]
Phil Ramone
recording [7-8]
Robert DiDomenica
flute [8]
Roland Vamos
violin [7]
Scott LaFaro
bass [4], double bass [4.4, 6.7-8]
Sticks Evans
drums (drum set) [7-8]
Tom Dowd
recording [4.4, 2.6]