Symphony for Improvisers
Don Cherry - CD
- Artist: Don Cherry
- Format: CD
- Year: 2005
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC: 724356382329
- Item Number: EMI638232
- Release date: 07/19/2005
- 1. Symphony for Improvisers: Symphony for Improvisers/Nu Creative Love
- 2. Manhattan Cry: Manhattan Cry/Lunatic/Sparkle Plenty/Om Nu
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Symphony for Improvisers by Don Cherry on CD
For his second album, Symphony for Improvisers, Don Cherry expanded his Complete Communion quartet -- tenor saxophonist Gato Barbieri, bassist Henry Grimes, and drummer Ed Blackwell -- to a septet, adding vibraphonist Karl Berger, bassist Jean Francois Jenny-Clark, and tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders (who frequently plays piccolo here). The lineup has a real international flavor, since Barbieri was from Argentina, Berger from Germany, and Jenny-Clark from France; Cherry had gigged regularly with all three during his 1964-1965 sojourn in Europe, and brought them to New York to record. With all the added firepower, it's remarkable that Symphony for Improvisers has the same sense of shared space and controlled intelligence as its predecessor, even when things are at their most heated. Once again, Cherry sets up the album as two continuous medleys that fuse four compositions apiece, which allows the group's improvisational energy and momentum to carry straight through the entire program. The "Symphony for Improvisers" suite is the most raucous part of Cherry's Blue Note repertoire, and the "Manhattan Cry" suite pulls off the widest mood shifts Cherry had yet attempted in that format. Even though the album is full of passionate fireworks, there's also a great deal of subtlety -- the flavors added to the ensemble by Berger's vibes and Sanders' piccolo, for example, or the way other instrumental voices often support and complement a solo statement. Feverish but well-channeled, this larger-group session is probably Cherry's most gratifying for Blue Note. ~ Steve Huey, Rovi
- Artist: Don Cherry
- Format: CD
- Year: 2005
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC: 724356382329
- Item Number: EMI638232
- Release date: 07/19/2005
- Label: Blue Note
- Genre: Jazz
- Style: Free Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Trumpet Jazz
- Album Time: 39:00
- Best of Columbia & Monument Sides
- Blue Lake
- Complete Communion
- Eternal Rhythm
- Hear and Now
- Human Music [Bonus Tracks]
- Live at Cafe Montmartre 1966, Vol. 2
- Live at Cafe Montmartre 1966, Vol. 3
- Mu First Part/Mu Second Part
- Mu, First Part
- Mu, Second Part
- Orient [Fruit Tree]
- Swing for Two Plus [Bonus Tracks]
- There Goes My Everything/Take a Message to Mary
- Where Is Brooklyn?
- Mu First Part/Mu Second Part
- Blue Lake
- Codona, Vol. 1
- The Avant-Garde
- Hear & Now (Import)
- The Avant-Garde [Rhino]
- Mu, First Part
- Music Sangam (Import)
- Music/Sangam
- The Avant-Garde [Japan]
- The Avant-Garde (Import)
- Cool
- Nu
- The Avant-Garde
- Mu, Second Part
- Dona Nostra (Import)
- Organic Music Society
- DON CHERRY : DONA NOSTRA
- Blue Lake
- Orient/Blue Lake
- Live at Cafe Montmartre 1966
- Copenhagen 1963/Hilversum 1966
- Brown Rice (Import)
- Live in Frankfurt 82
- See You in a Minute: Memories of Don Cherry
- Organic Music Society
- Actions
- Mu, Pts. 1 & 2/Orient
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Credits:
- A.B. Spellman - Original Liner Notes
- Gordon H. Jee - Creative Director
- Michael Cuscuna - Reissue Producer
- Bob Blumenthal - Liner Notes
- Don Cherry - Main Performer, Composer
- Francis Wolff - Cover Photo, Photography
- Micaela Boland - Design, Art Direction
- Reid Miles - Cover Design
- Rudy Van Gelder - Audio Engineer, Remastering, Engineer
- Alfred Lion - Audio Production, Producer
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