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Reunion 1990
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Teatro Municipale Valli, Reggio Emilia, Italy, April 24, 1990.
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.
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ARTISTS
Ornette Coleman (alto sax); Don Cherry (cornet); Charlie Haden (bass); Billy Higgins (drums) |
TRACKS
CD1:
01. TELESCOPE 4:54
02. HIM AND HER 8:30
03. BUCKMINSTER FULLER 7:38
04. MAGIC 8:36
05. DANCING FLOWER 6:35
06. IF YOU COULD SEE MY EYES 9:36
07. SPELLING THE ALPHABET 7:53
Total Time: 53:40
CD2
01. WORD FOR BIRD 8:26
02. LATIN GENETICS 12:34
03. SINGING IN THE SHOWER 10:05
04. LONELY WOMAN 12:21
05. THE SPHINX 5:46
Total Time: 49:13 |
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