Crisis (Ornette Coleman album)

{{Infobox album

| name = Crisis

| type = Live album

| cover = Crisis (Ornette Coleman album).jpg

| alt =

| released = June 1972{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CSgEAAAAMBAJ&dq=ornette+coleman+crisis&pg=PA52|title=Billboard|date=July 1, 1972}}

| recorded = March 22, 1969

| venue = New York University, New York City

| studio =

| genre = Jazz

| length = 43:56

| label = Impulse!

| producer =

| chronology = Ornette Coleman

| prev_title = Ornette at 12

| prev_year = 1968

| next_title = Friends and Neighbors: Live at Prince Street

| next_year = 1970

}}

Crisis is a live album by the American jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman recorded at New York University in 1969 and released on the Impulse! label.[http://www.jazzdisco.org/ornette-coleman/catalog/#impulse-as-9187 Ornette Coleman discography] accessed November 11, 2010

In 2017, Real Gone Music reissued Crisis on CD as part of a compilation that also included Ornette at 12.{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/ornette-at-12-crisis-mw0003082045 |title=Ornette Coleman: Ornette at 12/Crisis |first=Matt |last=Collar |website=AllMusic |access-date=August 11, 2022}}{{cite web |url=https://www.thewire.co.uk/news/47383/two-rare-ornette-coleman-albums-to-be-reissued-as-double-cd |title=Two rare Ornette Coleman albums to be reissued as double CD |website=The Wire |access-date=August 11, 2022}}

Reception

Brian Olewnick's AllMusic review awarded the album 4½ stars and stated: "Crisis somehow lacks the reputation of the revolutionary Coleman albums from early in his career, but on purely musical grounds it ranks among his most satisfying works".Olewnick, B. [{{Allmusic|class=album|id=crisis-r136812|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic Review] accessed November 11, 2010 {{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}

|rev2 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| rev2Score = {{rating|4|5}} {{Cite book

|editor-last=Swenson

|editor-first=J.

| author-link =

| year = 1985

| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone

| location = USA

| isbn = 0-394-72643-X