Ornette Coleman Double Quartet – Free Jazz album art
Contributed by Rob Hudson on Jun 12th, 2015. Artwork published in
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1961 album that gave the subgenre that would come to be known as ‘Free Jazz’ its name. Typical of the controversial reception, Down Beat magazine published a special double review, with one critic awarded the album Five Stars, and the other Zero Stars.
The original gatefold cover incorporated a cutout that revealed a detail of Jackson Pollock’s 1954 painting The White Light.
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The inside of the gatefold cover, with the cutout at the left revealing a portion of the Pollock painting on the front cover.
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Back cover.
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Thanks, Chris!