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Don Cherry: Orient
by AAJ Staff
Don Cherry, who passed away in 1995 at age 59, was a world musician long before the term became fashionable. Two recent early '70s reissues - Orient and Blue Lake (both previously Japan-only releases), help to solidify Cherry as not only one of the greatest (pocket) trumpeters/cornetists that jazz has known, but also one of its ...
The Copenhagen Tapes
By Albert Ayler
Label: Ayler Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Spirits/ Vibrations/ Saints/ Mothers/ Children/ Spirits/ Introduction by B
Ornette Coleman: The Complete Science Fiction Sessions
by David Adler
Listening to the first moments of “What Reason Could I Give," the lead-off track on this valuable reissue, one is reminded of Ornette Coleman's pervasive influence on present-day jazz composition. The expanded ensemble, the busy rhythms percolating underneath sustained chords and melodic figures, the dream-like vocals by Asha Puthli: all of it brims with the kind ...
Ornette Coleman: Complete Science Fiction Sessions
by Derek Taylor
Before the arrival of this recent reissue Ornette Coleman's brief, but fertile stint for Columbia Records was spread across a hopelessly convoluted morass of LPs and CDs, import and domestic. The folks at Columbia, who have over the past few years re-hipped themselves to the wealth of music bursting the seams in their vaults, targeted their ...
Nils Petter Molvaer: Khmer
by Douglas Payne
Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær's solo debut is a technospheric curiosity that suitably brings together the melodic grooves of William Orbit and the evocative ambiance of Mark Isham. Molvær, a new name to me, has actually been around for nearly two decades--as a member of the Scandinavian group Masqualero and in addition to working in both ...
Tamma
By Don Cherry
Label: Odin
Released: 1997
Track listing: Don's Tune/Samodado; Tamma Song/Afro Disco; Senegal; Od Dja Na/Ga Song; Tara; Ebou;
