Ornette Coleman Quartet: Reunion 1990 [2CD]

Avant Jazz / Free Improvisation / Avant-Garde
premiera polska: 2010-11-24
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kraj: USA
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multikultiproject.blogspot.com:
Podwójny album słynnego kwartetu Ornetta Colemana z Donem Cherrym, Charlie Hadenem i Billy Higginsem to zapis nigdy wcześniej niepublikowanego koncertu zarejestrowanego w 1990 roku w Reggio Emilia we Włoszech. Kwartet ten został wskrzeszony na tej jeden koncert - blisko trzydzieści lat po zarejestrowaniu słynnego albumu "The Shape of Jazz to Come". Ukazuje muzyków w świetnej kondycji twórczej, ciągle kreatywnych, wciąż gotowych do redefiniowania własnych dokonań i wykorzystujących w tym celu te trzydzieści lat, różnych przecież, doświadczeń. Prawie dwie godziny muzycznych uniesień z prawdziwą "wisienką na torcie" w postaci dwóch coverów z pierwszych albumów Ornette'a Colemana - "Lonely Woman" oraz "The Sphinx". Dobra realizacja dźwięku i niesamowite nagranie!!!

Machina; 02/2011, ocena: * * * * *
Opublikowane po raz pierwszy koncertowe nagrania reaktywowanego w 1990 roku klasycznego kwartetu: Coleman/ Cherry/ Haden/ Higgins. Zespół w kapitalnej formie i bynajmniej nieoczywistym repertuarze serwuje tyleż ostry, co śpiewny modern jazz, który wciąż jest najlepszym remedium na kanciaste fusion i obły smooth.
autor: Rafał Księżyk

freejazz-stef.blogspot.com; 2011-02-01; ocena: * * * * 1/2
"Just as Harold Bloom can enjoy Freud as "the central imagination of our age", one doesn't have to be a musician to enjoy The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization by George Russell. The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization
Toward the end of the book, Russell spells "it" out metaphorically with The "River Trip" Explanation of Jazz Improvisational Styles:
"Let's take a large river, like the Mississippi for example, and call it a tune. Now suppose the small towns along its shores are chords, and the larger towns are not only chords, but tonic stations as well. (Tonic stations are points in any chord-built composition to which two or more chords tend to resolve.)
Now let's say you're Coleman Hawkins and you're going to take a trip down he river on a steamer...this steamer is a local and will make stops at all the towns along the river....
Ornette Coleman also will make the trip down the river. His conveyance, Like Coltrane's, will be a rocket ship...Once his rocket ship jets off from St. Louis and soars into the chromatic sphere, it may not touch ground again until it has hit New Orleans"...He may remain aloft indefinitely, allowing his ideas to resolve themselves naturally."
Now that Virgin Galactic is booking flights into space, Coleman doesn't sound so "space aged" any more. In fact, with Reunion 1990, The Ornette Coleman Quartet inherits the earth-and that was 21 years ago. Since 1990 Coleman released Tone Dialing and Sound Museum - Hidden Man and Three Women, two of my favorite recordings of all time by anyone, ever. The 90's were a good decade for Coleman and if you told me that the 90's was the future he began to remember on may 22nd, 1959 I'd believe you. The Shape of Jazz to Come. Coleman was right.
Reunion, as you may have read in Burning Ambulance (for one) isn't for the audiophile--just the listener. Of course everyone plays great--one long shimmering virtuoso cadenza of glimmering excellence from beginning to end. Haden is a real stand out. His solos are fully realized pieces unto themselves, employing the full sonic spectrum of the instrument to the point where he even whips out ol' John Hardy. Ornette, then 60 years old, sounds like a glorious ad-mixture of Fred "Curley" Neal and Hakeem Olajuwon-elated and elastic yet strong and commanding. Same for Don Cherry and Billy Higgins who, on this outing, also fly at it full throttle, in a similar state of euphoria and grace. And why shouldn't they? They made it--in every sense of the term.
If you've ever cared about the music of Ornette Coleman (or Charley Haden, or Billy Higgins or Don Cherry) even a little, take out your credit card, buy this recording and pay that portion of your credit card bill. If you've never heard Ornette Coleman and you have come looking for a recommendation, you have found one. Start here and work backward.
Even with 11 months to go in the year, I hereby confidently place Reunion squarely within my 2011 top ten."
autor: Stanley Zappa
freejazz-stef.blogspot.com

Editor's info:
2-CD SET, PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED!!
This release contains a complete never before released live performance by the original Ornette Coleman quartet. The reunion took place in Reggio Emilia (between Modena and Parma), Italy, thirty years after the recording of their first album, the wonderful The Shape of Jazz to Come. Among the many highlights here are revised versions of "Lonely Woman", from that album, and "The Sphinx", from Ornette's first album, Something Else!
Includes 12-page booklet
In 1959, Ornette Coleman presented The Shape of Jazz to Come, the first LP by his quartet with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins. The album was mostly well received. The Shape of Jazz to Come was a watershed event in the genesis of avant-garde jazz. The record shattered traditional concepts of harmony in jazz, getting rid of not only the piano player but the whole idea of concretely outlined chord changes. The compositions here follow almost no predetermined harmonic structure, which allows Coleman and Don Cherry an unprecedented freedom to take the melodies of their solo lines wherever they felt like going in the moment, regardless of what the piece's tonal center had seemed to be. Plus, this was the first time Coleman recorded with a rhythm section -composed of bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Billy Higgins - that was loose and open-eared enough to follow his already controversial conception. The four musicians had already been recorded the previous year playing live at the Hillcrest Club in Los Angeles, but on that occasion Paul Bley was on piano and the music wasn't as free as here. This same quartet would record a second album on October 8, 1959, titled Change of the Century. After that, the four musicians only rarely played together as a quartet. The first entirely quartet album by Coleman-Cherry-Haden-Higgins since Change of the Century, was made in February 1987. It was titled In All Languages and introduced two of the tunes the quartet would play at the Reggio Emilia concert presented here: "Word for Bird" and "Latin Genetics". The concert presented here, recorded thirty years after their first iconic work, took place when all four quartet members had become highly respected artists. So, in 1990, when the Italian city of Reggio Emilia held a three-day "Portrait of the Artist" featuring the Coleman quartet with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins, it was a well- deserved tribute.

muzycy:
Ornette Coleman: alto sax
Don Cherry: cornet
Charlie Haden: bass
Billy Higgins: drums

utwory:
CD 1:
1. Telescope 4:54
2. Him And Her 8:30
3. Buckminster Fuller 7:38
4. Magic 8:36
5. Dancing Flower 6:35
6. If You Could See My Eyes 9:36
7. Spelling The Alphabet 7:53
Total Time: 53:40

CD 2
1. Word For Bird 8:26
2. Latin Genetics 12:34
3. Singing In The Shower 10:05
4. Lonely Woman 12:21
5. The Sphinx 5:46
Total Time: 49:13

wydano: 2010-10
nagrano: 1990
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