| At the "Golden Circle" Stockholm | ||||
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| Live album by the Ornette Coleman Trio | ||||
| Released | 1966 | |||
| Recorded | December 3–4, 1965 | |||
| Venue | Gyllene Cirkeln, Stockholm | |||
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| Length | 39:25 (Vol. One) 43:50 (Vol. Two) | |||
| Label | Blue Note BLP 4224 (Vol. One) BLP 4225 (Vol. Two) | |||
| Ornette Coleman chronology | ||||
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At the "Golden Circle" Stockholm is a pair of 1966 live albums by the Ornette Coleman Trio, documenting concerts on the nights of December 3 and 4, 1965, at the Gyllene Cirkeln club in Stockholm.
At the "Golden Circle" Stockholm marks Coleman's first release on Blue Note Records after leaving Atlantic. It is also Coleman's recorded debut on trumpet and violin, instruments which he took three years teaching himself to play after leaving Atlantic.
The 2002 CD reissue includes previously unreleased bonus tracks in both volumes.
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] Vol. 1 |
| AllMusic | [2] Vol. 2 |
| Penguin Guide to Jazz | [3] |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [4] Vol. 1 |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [4] Vol. 2 |
| Tom Hull | A (Vol. 1) [5] |
| Tom Hull | A− (Vol. 2) [6] |
The music has been described as "brilliant, optimistic closely unified thematic improvisations". [7] "Snowflakes and Sunshine" marked the introduction of his unconventional violin and trumpet playing. "In Coleman's hands, both instruments are refunctioned into 'sound tools' (...) producers of sounds, rhythms and emotions." [8]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz listed both volumes as part of its "Core Collection" and gave each a four-star rating (of a possible four stars). [9]
Pitchfork ranked the album 156th on their "The 200 Best Albums of the 1960s" list. [10]
All tracks are written by Ornette Coleman
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Faces and Places" | |
| 2. | "European Echoes" |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Dee Dee" | |
| 2. | "Dawn" |
All tracks are written by Ornette Coleman
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Announcement" | 1:09 |
| 2. | "Faces and Places" | 11:37 |
| 3. | "European Echoes" | 7:53 |
| 4. | "Dee Dee" | 10:38 |
| 5. | "Dawn" | 8:05 |
| 6. | "Faces and Places" (alternate take) | 8:31 |
| 7. | "European Echoes" (alternate take) | 14:13 |
| 8. | "Doughnuts" | 13:30 |
All tracks are written by Ornette Coleman
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Snowflakes and Sunshine" | |
| 2. | "Morning Song" |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The Riddle" | |
| 2. | "Antiques" |
All tracks are written by Ornette Coleman
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Snowflakes and Sunshine" | 10:42 |
| 2. | "Morning Song" | 10:41 |
| 3. | "The Riddle" | 9:54 |
| 4. | "Antiques" | 12:35 |
| 5. | "Morning Song" (alternate take) | 8:16 |
| 6. | "The Riddle" (alternate take) | 12:39 |
| 7. | "Antiques" (alternate take) | 13:00 |
The Shape of Jazz to Come is the third album by the jazz musician Ornette Coleman. Released on Atlantic Records in 1959, it was his debut on the label and his first album featuring the working quartet including himself, trumpeter Don Cherry, bassist Charlie Haden, and drummer Billy Higgins. The recording session for the album took place on May 22, 1959, at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, California. Although Coleman initially wished for the album to be titled Focus on Sanity after the LP's fourth track, Atlantic producer Nesuhi Ertegun suggested the final title, feeling that it would give consumers "an idea about the uniqueness of the LP."
Milestones is a studio album by Miles Davis. It was recorded with his "first great quintet" augmented as a sextet and released in 1958 by Columbia Records.
Change of the Century is a studio album by jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman. It was released through Atlantic Records in May 1960. It sold very well from soon after its release. Recording sessions for the album took place on October 8 and 9, 1959, in New York City.
This Is Our Music is the fifth studio album by American jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman, recorded in July and August of 1960 and released on Atlantic Records in March 1961. It was Coleman's first album with drummer Ed Blackwell, and his only album on Atlantic to include a standard, in this case a version of "Embraceable You" by George and Ira Gershwin.
Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation is an album by the jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman. It was released through Atlantic Records in September 1961: the fourth of Coleman's six albums for the label. Its title named the then-nascent free jazz movement. The recording session took place on December 21, 1960, at A&R Studios in New York City. The sole outtake from the album session, "First Take," was later released on the 1971 compilation Twins and subsequent CD reissues of Free Jazz.
Town Hall, 1962 is a live album by Ornette Coleman, recorded on December 21, 1962 at New York City's Town Hall and released in 1965 by the ESP-Disk label. It was the first recording of Coleman's new trio, featuring rhythm section David Izenzon and Charles Moffett.
Sound Grammar is a live album by jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman, recorded live in Ludwigshafen, Germany, on 14 October 2005. The album was produced by Coleman and Michaela Deiss, and released on Coleman's new Sound Grammar label. It was his first new album in almost a decade, since the end of his relationship with Verve in the 1990s. It features a mix of new and old originals.
Skies of America is the 17th album by jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman, released on Columbia Records in 1972. It consists of one long composition by Coleman taking up both sides of the album, played by the London Symphony Orchestra and conducted by David Measham. Coleman himself only plays on a few segments, and there is no other jazz instrumentation.
Tomorrow Is the Question!, subtitled The New Music of Ornette Coleman!, is the second album by American jazz musician Ornette Coleman, originally released in 1959 by Contemporary Records. It was Coleman's last album for the label before he began a highly successful multi-album series for Atlantic Records in 1959.
Virgin Beauty is an album by Ornette Coleman and his Prime Time ensemble. It was released by Portrait Records in 1988.
Ornette! is a studio album by the alto saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman. It was released in February 1962 through Atlantic Records. The album features Scott LaFaro in place of Charlie Haden, who had left the Quartet but would work again with Coleman in the future.
Chappaqua Suite is a free jazz album by alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman which was recorded in 1965 for Columbia Records.
The Empty Foxhole is an album by the American jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman that was released on the Blue Note label in 1966. The album features Coleman's untutored violin and trumpet as well as performing on his usual instrument, the alto saxophone, and marks the recording debut of his drummer son Denardo Coleman, who was ten years of age at the time. The album cover features Coleman's own artwork.
New York Is Now! is an album by the American jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman released on the Blue Note label in 1968.
Love Call is an album by the American jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman recorded in 1968 and released on the Blue Note label.
Ornette on Tenor is the eighth album by the American jazz composer and saxophonist Ornette Coleman, released in 1962 on Atlantic Records, his sixth and final one for the label. It features Coleman playing tenor saxophone rather than his usual alto, and bassist Jimmy Garrison before he joined the John Coltrane Quartet. This would be the last record by the Coleman Quartet started in the 1950s; he would disband this group and form the Coleman Trio later in the year. Recording sessions took place on March 22 and 27, 1961, at Atlantic Studios in New York City. One outtake from the March 27 session, "Harlem's Manhattan," would appear on the 1970 compilation The Art of the Improvisers.
The Art of the Improvisers is an album credited to jazz composer and saxophonist Ornette Coleman, released by Atlantic Records in 1970. The album was assembled without Coleman's input, comprising outtakes from recording sessions of 1959 to 1961 for The Shape of Jazz to Come, Change of the Century, This Is Our Music, Ornette!, and Ornette on Tenor. Recording sessions in 1959 took place at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, California; those in 1960 and 1961 at Atlantic Studios in New York City.
Beauty Is a Rare Thing: The Complete Atlantic Recordings is a box set by American jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman compiling his master recordings made for Atlantic between 1959 and 1961, released on Rhino Records on November 16, 1993.
Science Fiction is an album by the American avant-garde jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman, recorded in September and October of 1971 and released on Columbia Records in February 1972.
Friends and Neighbors: Live at Prince Street is a live album by the American jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman recorded in 1970 and released on the Flying Dutchman label.
