Town Hall, 1962

Infobox Album
Name = Town Hall, 1962
Type = Live album
Artist = Ornette Coleman


Released = 1965
Recorded = 21 December 1962
Genre = Free jazz
Avant-garde jazz
Length = 45:14
Label = ESP-Disk
Producer =
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Last album = "Ornette on Tenor"
(1962)
This album = "Town Hall, 1962"
(1962/5)
Next album = "Chappaqua Suite"
(1965)

"Town Hall, 1962" is an album by Ornette Coleman released on the ESP-Disk label. It was the first recording featuring at its heart his new trio after the ensemble of his Atlantic years.

The record provides partial documentation of a concert featuring several ensembles which had been organised and promoted by Coleman himself, in his search for artistic and economic independence. It was a successful venture, breaking even on costs ref|Spellman, but was not repeated.

Even though the concert would be followed by two years of absence from public performance and recording, it is indicative of the direction which Coleman's music would take on his return in 1965, with the core trio and the introduction of string instrument textures.

References

# cite book | author=Spellman, A. B. | title=Four Lives in the Bebop Business | publisher=Limelight | year=1985 originally 1966 | id=ISBN 0-87910-042-7

Track listing

"All tracks written by Ornette Coleman."

ide A

# "Doughnut"
# "Sadness"
# "Dedication to Poets and Writers"

ide B

# "the Ark"

Personnel

* Ornette Coleman — alto saxophone
* David Izenzon — double bass
* Charles Moffat — drums
* Selwart Clark — violin
* Nathan Goldstein — violin
* Julian Barber — viola
* Kermit Moore — cello