Ornette Coleman discography
Discography for American jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman.
As bandleader
Studio albums
- 1958: Something Else!!!!
- 1959: Tomorrow Is the Question!
- 1959: The Shape of Jazz to Come
- 1959: Change of the Century
- 1960: This Is Our Music
- 1960: Free Jazz
- 1961: Ornette!
- 1961: Ornette on Tenor
- 1965: Chappaqua Suite
- 1966: The Empty Foxhole
- 1968: New York Is Now!
- 1968: Love Call
- 1971: Science Fiction
- 1972: Skies of America
- 1973-75: Dancing in Your Head
- 1977: Soapsuds, Soapsuds
- 1976: Body Meta
- 1979: Of Human Feelings
- 1985: Song X
- 1987: In All Languages
- 1988: Virgin Beauty
- 1992: Naked Lunch with Howard Shore, The London Philharmonic Orchestra – soundtrack
- 1995: Tone Dialing
- 1996: Sound Museum: Hidden Man
- 1996: ''Sound Museum: Three Women''
Live albums
- 1962: Town Hall, 1962
- 1965: At the "Golden Circle", Vol. 1 & 2
- 1965: An Evening with Ornette Coleman
- 1967: The Music of Ornette Coleman - Forms & Sounds
- 1968: Ornette at 12
- 1968: The Love Revolution – music previously issued on Live In Milano 1968 and The Unprecedented Music of Ornette Coleman
- 1970: Friends and Neighbors: Live at Prince Street
- 1970: Crisis
- 1971: Live in Paris 1971
- 1971: The Belgrade Concert
- 1985: Opening the Caravan of Dreams
- 1985: Prime Design/Time Design
- 1988: Jazzbühne Berlin '88
- 1996: Colors: Live from Leipzig
- 2005: Sound Grammar
- 2009: ''New Vocabulary''
Compilations
The Art of the Improvisers – rec. 1959-61Twins – rec. 1961To Whom Who Keeps a Record – rec. 1959-60Who's Crazy? Vol. 1 & 2 – rec. 1966Broken Shadows – rec. 1971Beauty Is a Rare Thing The Complete Science Fiction Sessions The Ornette Coleman Legacy – rec. 1960-61As sideman
With Paul BleyWith Charlie Haden
- 1976: Closeness
- 1976: The Golden Number
- 1983–84: Renaissance Man
- 2010: For the Love of Ornette
- Geri Allen, Eyes in the Back of Your Head
- Louis Armstrong, Louis Armstrong and His Friends
- Joe Henry, Scar
- Jackie McLean, New and Old Gospel – rec. 1967
- Yoko Ono, Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band on the track "AOS"
- Lou Reed, The Raven
- Gunther Schuller, Jazz Abstractions
- Bob Thiele, Head Start
- James Blood Ulmer, Tales of Captain Black
- Sonny Rollins, ''Road Shows, Vol. 2''