Crisis (Ornette Coleman album) explained

Crisis
Type:	Live album
Artist:	Ornette Coleman
Cover:	Crisis (Ornette Coleman album).jpg
Released:	June 1972^[1]
Recorded:	March 22, 1969
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	43:56
Label:	Impulse!
Chronology:	Ornette Coleman
Prev Title:	Ornette at 12
Prev Year:	1968
Next Year:	1970

Crisis is a live album by the American jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman recorded at New York University in 1969 and released on the Impulse! label.^[2]

In 2017, Real Gone Music reissued Crisis on CD as part of a compilation that also included Ornette at 12.^{[3] [4]}

Reception

Brian Olewnick's AllMusic review awarded the album 4½ stars and stated: "Crisis somehow lacks the reputation of the revolutionary Coleman albums from early in his career, but on purely musical grounds it ranks among his most satisfying works".^[5]

Track listing

All compositions by Ornette Coleman except as indicated

1. "Broken Shadows" – 5:59
2. "Comme Il Faut" – 14:26
3. "Song for Ché" (Charlie Haden) – 11:32
4. "Space Jungle" – 5:20
5. "Trouble in the East" – 6:39

• Recorded at New York University in New York City on March 22, 1969.

Personnel

• Ornette Coleman – alto saxophone, trumpet, violin
• Don Cherry – cornet, Indian flute
• Dewey Redman – tenor saxophone, clarinet
• Charlie Haden – bass
• Denardo Coleman – drums

Notes and References

1. Web site: Billboard. July 1, 1972.
2. http://www.jazzdisco.org/ornette-coleman/catalog/#impulse-as-9187 Ornette Coleman discography
3. Web site: Ornette Coleman: Ornette at 12/Crisis . Matt . Collar . AllMusic . August 11, 2022.
4. Web site: Two rare Ornette Coleman albums to be reissued as double CD . The Wire . August 11, 2022.
5. Olewnick, B. [{{Allmusic|class=album|id=crisis-r136812|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic Review] accessed November 11, 2010