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1. Albert Ayler was a great saxophonist that experimented with timbre
   “Love Cry”–Albert Ayler
   You should definitely check out some Ornette Coleman too
   “The Shape of Jazz to Come”–Ornette Coleman–1959–Miles was upset that this album caused more commotion than Kind of Blue did at the time. KoB has definitely been more acclaimed since, but Ornette was really interesting.

   -AE

   

   Andres
   April 11, 2013 at 5:16 pm
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2. Check out John Zorn, Ornette Coleman

   

   TK
   April 11, 2013 at 6:15 pm
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3. The album is Playing by Old And New Dreams ( Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Ed Blackwell ) It’s Live the opening cut Mopti man check it out. These cats were in Ornette Coleman band at one time. BAD BAD BAD as in Good.
   Song X Ornette Coleman, Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden, Jack DeJohnette, Denardo Coleman – A Live recording Dec. 1985
   all selection were written by Ornette or Metheny and Ornette.
   Miles Davis – A Tribute To Jack Johnson ( Great Music sit back and listen ) One more Blues for Coltrane,a tribute to John Coltrane. The band is Philly own McCoy Tyner, Pharoah
   Sanders, David Murray, Cecil McBee, Roy Haynes.

   

   busthead213
   April 11, 2013 at 6:51 pm
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4. if you haven’t already done so, check out “Escalator Over the Hill” and “Tropic Appetites,” the two albums on which Carla Bley’s career/reputation largely rest (although one certainly shouldn’t overlook her work with Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra, to be sure). that said, “EOTH” is better known, but “Appetites” is actually probably the better recording of the two…

   

   s k
   April 11, 2013 at 7:05 pm
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5. You’ve gotten some good suggestions so far! Here are a few of my favorites from the 60s to the present time, from free jazz to experimental combinations with electronica, classical approaches, etc.

   Albert Ayler trio: Spiritual Unity

   Anthony Braxton: For Alto (incredible solo alto sax performance)

   Arthur Doyle: Alabama Feeling

   Baden Baden Free Jazz Orchestra: Gettin’ To Know Y’all

   Joey Baron: Raised Pleasure Dot

   Bill Frisell: Quartet (for something much more relaxed)

   Black Artists Group: In Paris

   Flying Luttenbachers: Alptraum

   George Cartwright: The Ghostly Bee

   Jaques Coursil: Black Suite

   John Coltrane: Interstellar Space (awesome out tenor/drums duo material)

   Last Exit: Iron Path

   Zs: Arms

   Little Women: Teeth

   Matthew Herbert Big Band: There’s Me And There’s You (kind of an avant vocal/bigband album–really interesting)

   Miles Davis: On the Corner

   Herbie Hancock: Sextant

   Eric Dolphy: Out to Lunch

   Ron Miles: My Cruel Heart

   Sex Mob: Dime Grind Palace

   Sonny Sharrock: Black Woman

   Spring Heel Jack: Songs and Themes

   Tim Berne: Fulton St Maul

   And lots of great Zorn albums…the original Masada Quartet albums remind me a lot of Ornette Coleman’s approach with a bit of Anthony Braxton’s attack on alto, all spoken through a klezmer harmonic vocabulary. Amazing records. And the Naked City albums are critical.

   

   Fluxus
   April 11, 2013 at 8:02 pm
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