An Evening with Ornette Coleman

An Evening with Ornette Coleman is a live album by Ornette Coleman. It was recorded in August 1965 at Fairfield Halls in Croydon, London, and was initially released by Polydor International in 1967. The album opens with a recording of a wind quintet by Coleman performed by London's Virtuoso Ensemble, followed by trio performances featuring Coleman on alto saxophone, violin, and trumpet, accompanied by bassist David Izenzon and drummer Charles Moffett.

The album was reissued by Freedom Records, a subsidiary of Black Lion Records, in 1972 with the title Ornette Coleman In Europe Volumes I & II, and was reissued again by Arista Records in 1975 as The Great London Concert. In 2008, the FreeFactory label reissued the album on CD under the name Croydon Concert. The wind quintet, titled "Sounds and Forms" on the Polydor and Freedom releases, and "Forms and Sounds" on the Arista and FreeFactory releases, would be heard in modified form on the album The Music of Ornette Coleman, recorded in March 1967 and released by RCA that same year.