Ornette Coleman


Important Sidemen


   

Name

Instrument

Years with Ornette

Key Records

Don Cherry

(Pocket) Trumpet

1959-1961

1971-1972

1987 (one album)

Something Else!!!

Tomorrow Is The Question!

The Shape of Jazz to Come

Change of the Century

This Is Our Music

Free Jazz

Freddie Hubbard

Trumpet

1960 (one album)

Free Jazz

Pharoah Sanders

Tenor Sax

1965 (one album)

Chappaqua Suite

Dewey Redman

Tenor Sax

1968

New York Is Now!

Eric Dolphy

Bass clarinet

1960 (one album)

Free Jazz

James “Blood” Ulmer

Guitar

1973

 

Tales Of Captain Black (by James “Blood” Ulmer)

Percy Heath

Bass

1959 (one album)

Tomorrow Is The Question!

Charlie Haden

Bass

1958-1960

1966-1970

(He continues to play with Ornette from time to time)

The Shape of Jazz to Come

Change of the Century

Free Jazz

Scott LaFaro

Bass

1960-1961

Free Jazz

Jimmy Garrison

Bass

1961 (one album)

1968

Ornette On Tenor

New York Is Now!

Love Call

David Izenson

Bass

1962-1969

 

At the Golden Circle, Vol. 1

At the Golden Circle, Vol. 2

Shelly Manne

Drums

1959 (one album)

Tomorrow Is The Question!

Billy Higgins

Drums

1959-1961

 

 

 

Something Else!!!

The Shape of Jazz to Come

Change of the Century

Free Jazz

Ed Blackwell

Drums

1961-1962

(He continued to play with Ornette until his death in 1992)

This Is Our Music

Free Jazz

Charles Moffett

Drums

1965-1969

 

At the Golden Circle, Vol. 1

At the Golden Circle, Vol. 2

Jack DeJohnette

Drums

1985 (one album)

Song X