At the "Golden Circle" Stockholm, volume one
Beskrivning:Jazzklubben Gyllene Cirkeln i Stockholm hade en oerhörd betydelse för musiklivet i Sverige på 1960-talet, framför allt genom gästspelen av amerikanska musiker från skilda generationer. Det kanske mest betydelsefulla gästspelet var de två veckor altsaxofonisten/kompositören Ornette Coleman spelade på klubben i december 1965. Han ledde en trio med David Izenson, bas, och Charles Moffett, trummor.
Som Ludvig Rasmusson uttryckte det i sin recension, som återges på konvolutets baksida:
"...Ornette Coleman´s trio at the Gyllene Cirkeln - it should be repeated - is a great cultural event. Everybody in Sweden´s music world, from pop musicians to serious composers, should hurry to the jazz club during the two weeks of this visit. Next Sunday, everything reverts back to normal in jazz in Sweden."
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"Ornette Coleman's 1965 trio with bassist David Izenzon and drummer Charles Moffett is easily the most underrated of all his bands. Coming off the light of the famed quartet in which Don Cherry, Eddie Blackwell, and Charlie Haden shone, anything might have looked a bit dimmer, it's true. But this band certainly had no apologies to make. Coleman was deep into creating a new approach to melody, since Haden and Cherry had honed his harmonic sensibilities. Izenzon proved to be the right bassist for Coleman to realize his ambitions. A stunning arco as well as pizzicato player (check his solo in "Dawn") Izenzon offered Coleman the perfect foil. No matter where Coleman's soloing moved the band, Izenzon was there at exactly the same time with an uncanny sense of counterpoint, and he often changed the harmonic mode by force. The first of these two volumes from December 3 shows Coleman in a playful, mischievous frame of mind, toying with the trio ads well as the audience on "Faces and Places" by inserting standard bop phrases and song quotes into the heart of his free soloing. On "Dee Dee," Coleman moves along to rhythmic counterpoint by Moffett, pushing Izenzon into the unlikely role of beat-keeper -- not simple for such an amazing improviser. But it's on the closer, "Dawn," that the band gels as one inseparable, ethereal unit, cascading through scalar invention and chromatic interplay as if it were second nature." (Thom Jurek, allmusic.com)
4 spår; speltid 39:25.
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Skivbolag: Blue Note ST-84224 (1965)
Format: LP
Skick: Vinyl Mycket gott skick
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Spår:
- Faces and places
- European echoes
- Dee dee
- Dawn
