ORNETTE COLEMAN Tomorrow Is The Question 1959 UK 1st *MONO* STUNNING SOUND
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ORNETTE COLEMAN Tomorrow Is The Question 1959 UK 1st *MONO* STUNNING SOUND
CONTEMPORARY/VOGUE LABEL - DEEP GROOVE DECCA PRESSING
TOMORROW IS THE QUESTION!the new music of
ORNETTE COLEMAN
ORIGINAL UK CONTEMPORARY/VOGUE (LAC 12228) FIRST *MONO* PRESSING (1959) OF COLEMAN'S CLASSIC "Tomorrow Is The Question" LP
Recorded January 16, February 23 and March 9 & 10, 1959 at Contemporary's Studio in Los Angeles
THE FIRST THING TO NOTE ABOUT THIS PRESSING IS THE STUNNING SOUND QUALITY
IT'S CRYSTAL CLEAR, RAZOR-SHARP AND INCREDIBLY IMMEDIATE - POSITIVELY JUMPS OUT OF THE SPEAKERS, BRIGHT AND FRESH WITH A TREMENDOUS LOUD CUT
DECCA PRESSED, THE YELLOW "CONTEMPORARY" LABELS ARE DEEP GROOVED AND HAVE THE "RECORDING FIRST PUBLISHED 1959" STATEMENT AS WELL AS A PRINTED 'E/T' TAX CODE (which was replaced by 'W/T' in August 1960)
MATRIX: VMGT - 1648 - 1B / VMGT - 1649 - 1B
MOTHERS/STAMPERS: 1/U and 1/C
HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL FULLY LAMINATED DUO-FLIPBACK SLEEVE “ Printed by West Bros Printers Limited, Mitchum” WHICH IS VERY THIN AND FLAT WITH LINER NOTES BY NAT HENTOFF (Sept. 14, 1959)
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL POLY-LINED DECCA INNER SLEEVE WITH "Made In England", BRITISH PATENT NUMBER and "Foreign patents pending" TEXT PRINTED IN PURPLE
Ornette Coleman: Alto Saxophone
Don Cherry: Trumpet
Percy Heath / Red Mitchell: Bass
Shelly Manne: Drums
On his second outing for the Contemporary label Coleman focused on a quartet.
For some unexplained reason, Billy Higgins was replaced by Shelly Manne; the only constants remain Coleman and Don Cherry.
The focus, then, is on the interplay between the altoist and trumpeter in executing Ornette's tunes, which were, more than on the preceding album (Something Else!, recorded a year earlier), knottier and tighter in their arrangement style.
The odd-syncopation style of the front line on numbers such as "Tears Inside," which comes out of the box wailing and then simmers down into a moody, swinging blues, was a rough transition for the rhythm section.
And the more Ornette and Cherry try to open it up into something more free and less attached to the tune's form, the more Manne and especially bassist Percy Heath hang on.
There are great moments here: for example, the celebratory freedom of "Giggin'," with its wonderful trumpet solo, and "Rejoicing," which has become one of Coleman's classics for its elongated melody line and simple obbligato phrasing, which become part of a wonderfully complex solo that keeps the blues firmly intact.
The final track, "Endless," is pure magic - after Manne carries it in 6/8, Coleman uses a nursery rhyme to move to the solo terrain and, when he does, the solo itself becomes a part of that rhyme as even Don Cherry feels his way through it in his break.
And, if anything, this is one of the things that came to define Ornette -- his willingness to let simplicity and its bright colours and textures confound not only other players and listeners, but also him too.
In those days, Coleman's musical system -- although worked out in detail -- always left room for the unexpected and, in fact, was played as if his life depended on it.
As a result, Tomorrow Is the Question! was a very literal title; who could have guessed the expansive, world-widening direction that Coleman's system would head into next?
Side One:
Tomorrow Is The Question (3:09)
Tears Inside (5:00)
Mind And Time (3:08)
Compassion (4:37)
Giggin' (3:19)
Rejoicing (4:04)
Side Two:
Lorraine (5:55)
Turnaround (7:55)
Endless (5:18)
LABELS: EXCELLENT++
Unmarked labels which have no hole wear and just a few light spindles
VINYL Visual:EXCELLENT+
The surfaces retain their original deep glossy sheen with only superficial hairlines/faint pressing blemishes - none of which have any audio impact
VINYL Audio: EXCELLENT++/VERY GOOD++
Sensational audio performance - incredibly fresh and immediate, crystal clear, sharp and bright with a loud Decca MONO cut.
My play-check at volume revealed no major audio issues - no scratches and no hint of groove-wear or distortion.
Side One plays beautifully with nothing to fault - exceptionally clean with practically silent run-in and track divisions.
Side Two plays with some light background in places (which lessened on my second play-through) and the occasional, isolated soft 'click' (all very minor and nothing I found at all intrusive) - sounds wonderful
SLEEVE: VERY GOOD
The fully laminated flipback cover is very thin and flat with some light age-related discolouration.
It is however, unmarked and the laminate still retains a nice glossy sheen.
The bottom flipback has creasing in the spine corner and some laminate loss.
All text on the spine is clear and bold.
A fine example for a sleeve over 50 years old
ALL RECORDS ARE PACKAGED WITH THE VINYL OUTSIDE OF THE SLEEVE TO PREVENT ANY 'KNIFING' DURING TRANSIT
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW INNER SLEEVE WITH ANTI-STATIC LINER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
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