Crisis (Ornette Coleman album)

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]

Crisis
Live album by
Ornette Coleman
ReleasedJune 1972[1]
RecordedMarch 22, 1969
GenreJazz
Length43:56
LabelImpulse!
Ornette Coleman chronology
Ornette at 12
(1968)		 Crisis
(1972)		 Friends and Neighbors: Live at Prince Street
(1970)

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]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[5]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[6]

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

References
  1. "Billboard". July 1, 1972.
  2. Ornette Coleman discography accessed November 11, 2010
  3. Collar, Matt. "Ornette Coleman: Ornette at 12/Crisis". AllMusic. Retrieved August 11, 2022.
  4. "Two rare Ornette Coleman albums to be reissued as double CD". The Wire. Retrieved August 11, 2022.
  5. Olewnick, B. AllMusic Review accessed November 11, 2010
  6. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 45. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
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