Fantasy / Contemporary

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Top Fantasy / Contemporary Albums

Tomorrow Is The Question by Ornette Coleman

Form by Tom Harrell

Looking Ahead! by Cecil Taylor

Editor's Picks

Conflict

Jimmy Woods Sextet

Latinsville!

Victor Feldman

The Best Of Shelly Manne

Shelly Manne

Folk Jazz

Bill Smith

Top Tracks from Fantasy / Contemporary

	Listen	Track Name	Length	Download

1.		Lorraine Artist: Ornette Coleman Album: Tomorrow Is The Question	5:59
2.		Toll Artist: Cecil Taylor Album: Looking Ahead!	7:43
3.		Brazilian Song Artist: Tom Harrell Album: Form	6:13
4.		Tomorow Is The Question Artist: Ornette Coleman Album: Tomorrow Is The Question	3:12
5.		Tears Inside Artist: Ornette Coleman Album: Tomorrow Is The Question	5:04
6.		Turnabout Artist: Ornette Coleman Album: Tomorrow Is The Question	7:58
7.		Compassion Artist: Ornette Coleman Album: Tomorrow Is The Question	4:39
8.		Giggin' Artist: Ornette Coleman Album: Tomorrow Is The Question	3:22
9.		Mind And Time Artist: Ornette Coleman Album: Tomorrow Is The Question	3:11
10.		Rejoicing Artist: Ornette Coleman Album: Tomorrow Is The Question	4:03

About Fantasy / Contemporary

In 1951, two years after establishing his Good Time Jazz label as an outlet for traditional jazz, Lester Koenig ventured into modern jazz with Contemporary Records. The Los Angeles-based company quickly set industry standards with its quiet pressings, striking album graphics, and informative liner notes, and, in 1956, was the first to record jazz in stereo. Contemporary Records not only captured the cream of the Southern California jazz scene, including such musicians as Hampton Hawes, Barney Kessel, Shelly Manne, Art Pepper, Andre Previn, and Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars, but also cut two albums by East Coast tenor titan Sonny Rollins and launched the recording career of jazz revolutionary Ornette Coleman. In 1984, seven years after Koenig's death, Contemporary was acquired by Fantasy, Inc., which maintained the label's legacy by signing such artists as Frank Morgan, Carol Sloane, Terry Gibbs, Buddy DeFranco, Bud Shank, Chris Connor, and the Art Farmer/Benny Golson Jazztet.