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)

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]

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. 1 2 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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