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Beauty Is a Rare Thing
Beauty Is a Rare Thing is a compilation box set collecting all the master recordings made for Atlantic Records between 1959 and 1961 by the American jazz composer and saxophonist Ornette Coleman. The set was released on Rhino Records in 1993, and reissued in March 2015.
Background.
Prior to signing with Atlantic in 1959, Coleman and his group had recorded "Something Else!!!!" and "Tomorrow Is the Question!" for the Los Angeles-based label Contemporary Records. Coleman
River" is a must-own, a thing of pure, unadulterated beauty, and the strongest record in Cooder's extensive catalog." Peter Margasak of the "Chicago Tribune" awarded the album four stars out of four, describing Cooder's performance as "arresting" and Bhatt's as "haunting". Margasak wrote that the fusion revealed a "rare, often transcendental beauty" as the two artists "gently and intuitively" found common ground. "Rolling Stone" called the album "fruitful" and awarded it