Open Sesame
1959 was a transformative year in Jazz, with America on the cusp of great social change and political upheaval, and musicians starting to break away from bebop, exploring new, experimental forms that represented an awakening in jazz.
Among the seminal recordings released in 1959: Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue , the album that gave birth to modal jazz; the complexity and melodic genius of John Coltrane’s Giant Steps ; Ornette Coleman’s The Shape of Jazz to Come , which did away with conventional harmony and form altogether; Dave Brubeck’s Time Out , which pushed the boundaries of meter and rhythm in jazz, and the energized and politically charged compositions of Charles Mingus’ Mingus Ah Um , among many others...
- Kachin, Curtis Fuller, Imagination
- Killer Joe, Art Farmer and Benny Golson, Meet the Jazztet
- Be Back Ta Reck-la, Curtis Fuller, Images of Curtis Fuller
- Open Sesame, Freddie Hubbard, Open Sesame
- Excursion, Julian Priester, Spiritsville
- One and Four (aka Mr. Day), John Coltrane, Like Sonny
- Village Blues, John Coltrane, Coltrane Jazz
- Summertime, John Coltrane, My Favorite Things
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