Higgins, Billy

Overview

Works:	954 works in 3,063 publications in 5 languages and 23,052 library holdings
Genres:	Jazz Free jazz Motion picture music Alternate takes (Sound recordings) Live sound recordings Saxophone music (Jazz) History Bop (Music) Trumpet music (Jazz) Songs and music
Roles:	Performer, Instrumentalist, Composer, Author, Lyricist, Musician, Other, Singer, Proofreader, sde, 1yr
Classifications:	M1366, 781.65

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Billy Higgins

Contemporary musicians : profiles of the people in music by Leigh Ann DeRemer( )
Contemporary Black biography. profiles from the international Black community( Book )
Contemporary Musicians by Leigh Ann DeRemer( )
Marilyn's dilemma : lead sheet : unpublished copyright deposit by Billy Higgins( )

Most widely held works by Billy Higgins

The shape of jazz to come by Ornette Coleman( Recording )

40 editions published between 1959 and 2015 in 4 languages and held by 1,032 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

" ... It's the entire album, which still has such freshness: it spills all over your idea of what jazz is but makes inherent sense, cohering with the like-mindedness of a suite."--New York Times Essential Library Jazz

The sidewinder by Lee Morgan( Recording )

59 editions published between 1964 and 2014 in 4 languages and held by 764 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Enth.: The sidewinder. Totem pole. Gary's notebook. Boy, what a night. Hocus-pocus

Go! by Dexter Gordon( Recording )

48 editions published between 1960 and 2014 in 4 languages and held by 652 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Free jazz : a collective improvisation by Ornette Coleman Double Quartet( Recording )

22 editions published between 1961 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 456 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"By 1961, when Free Jazz was released, alto saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman was infamous in the jazz world. His searing alto sax and full-ensemble take on melody were assailed by critics. Free Jazz only furthered Coleman's infamy, with its seamless, seemingly atonal high energy and wholesale lack of a melodic or harmonic center. For the session, Coleman assembled two complete quartets and had them play the same music opposite each other, with diving power and a kind of strange grace usually associated with acoustic blues. The music is raw and incisive, with sharp tones and biting solos appearing amidst propulsive rhythms that still seem whispery in their swishing shuffle. This recording helped cast the 1960s--and every decade since--in jazz. It drew a line in the sand, and critics, fans, and musicians are still haggling over the line today."--Andrew Bartlett

Wish by Joshua Redman( Recording )

17 editions published between 1993 and 1994 in 3 languages and held by 375 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Change of the century by Ornette Coleman( Recording )

19 editions published between 1959 and 2000 in 3 languages and held by 370 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Search for the new land by Lee Morgan( Recording )

26 editions published between 1964 and 2009 in 4 languages and held by 363 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Takin' off by Herbie Hancock( Recording )

47 editions published between 1962 and 2014 in 5 languages and held by 321 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Let freedom ring by Jackie McLean( Recording )

27 editions published between 1962 and 2007 in 5 languages and held by 309 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Through the eyes and words of John Adams, the political and economic forces which culminated in the Declaration of Independence are revealed

Round midnight : original motion picture soundtrack by Herbie Hancock( Recording )

19 editions published between 1986 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 290 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The other side of Round midnight by Dexter Gordon( Recording )

18 editions published between 1986 and 1987 in 4 languages and held by 285 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Round Midnight; Berangere's Nightmare #2; Call Sheet Blues; What is this thing called love; Tivoli; Society Red; As Time goes By; It's only a paper moon; Round Midnight

Works for me by John Scofield( Recording )

11 editions published between 2000 and 2001 in 3 languages and held by 283 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Something else!!! : the music of Ornette Coleman by Ornette Coleman( Recording )

25 editions published between 1967 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 263 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Beauty is a rare thing : the complete Atlantic recordings by Ornette Coleman( Recording )

12 editions published between 1993 and 2015 in 4 languages and held by 262 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Contains the entirety of Ornette Coleman's recorded output for the Atlantic label, including the contents of the following albums: The shape of jazz to come; Change of the century; This is our music; Free jazz; Ornette!; Ornette on tenor; The art of the improvisers; Twins; To whom who keeps a record"--Container

Mirrormirror by Joe Henderson( )

24 editions published between 1980 and 2016 in 5 languages and held by 230 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Gettin' around by Dexter Gordon( Recording )

18 editions published between 1965 and 2009 in 4 languages and held by 227 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Cornbread by Lee Morgan( Recording )

16 editions published between 1965 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 222 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Landscape by Art Pepper( )

7 editions published between 1980 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 217 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

God bless Jug and Sonny by Gene Ammons( )

7 editions published between 2001 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 215 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Heart of gold by Ellis Marsalis( Recording )

7 editions published between 1991 and 1992 in 3 languages and held by 212 WorldCat member libraries worldwide