ReviewsPerformance: Epochal / Recording: Good - "...Coleman caught some of the day's most intrepid experimentalists by surprise, because instead of borrowing compositional structures from Europe as they did, he made regenerative use of an older jazz vocabulary of smeared notes and collective improvisation....if you claim to like jazz, you can't afford to be without it....", "...Imperishable recordings...embodies a time and a place and an attitude, a unique way of looking at music and life....What a boon it is to have the Coleman Atlantics complete, correctly integrated, and beautifully remastered. No home should be without this music....", "...Ornette's alto sound is a raw streak of emotion--honest, direct, naked....on BEAUTY IS A RARE THING, Ornette broke through to a lucid, poignant, and most important, celebratory musical statement...", Ranked #4 in the Village Voice's List of the 10 Best Reissues of 1993., "...This collection is a watershed of jazz history...for all of his innovations Ornette remains at heart a bluesman...there exists nothing before or since to match the sheer exultation of this, Ornette's great blush of youth...."
Number of Audio ChannelsStereo