Ornette Quintet Coleman - Complete Live at the Hillcrest Club
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Artist: Ornette Quintet ColemanEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2007-05-14
Music Label: Gambit Spain
Soundtracks:
- Klactoveesedstene
- I Remember Harlem
- Blessing
- Free
- When Will The Blues Leave?
- How Deep Is The Ocean?
- Ramblin'
- Crossroads
Music reviews of Complete Live at the Hillcrest Club
Music Review: Don't Be Misled by the Release Date
Rating: 5 Stars
This is an amateur recording of a live club date some time before 1960, When Ornette, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and friends were not yet 'marketable.' Rumors of its existence floated around for years before this release in 2007, with a photo of Ornette at age 103, more or less, on the cover. The sound is funky at best, the balance is screwy, and the crowd noise is intrusive, but the playing is superb. Ornette didn't like club gigs in his later years of fame. He preferred concert settings. I'm not sure his instincts were sound about this; there's something about his concentration within the aura of his music, in front of a club crowd, that elevates his creativity.
I can only guess what other people hear when they listen to Ornette... and by the way, I heard him live just a few months ago as part of the San Farncisco Jazz Festival... but I get the impression from reviews that they hear more revolution than tradition. I don't. I hear an idiom rooted deeply in 1940s bebop, in Charlie Parker, Dizzie Gillespie, &co. To my ears, Ornette was the last authentic bebop original, the last to add some 'vocabulary' to bebop rather than merely to reiterate it. This CD displays Ornette and Cherry as bebop artists at the height of their improvisatory powers.
Jazz is an evolutionary art, by which I mean that each 'species' of style is functionally adapted to live in its own time, vivid and whole in itself, not just a step toward the future. That's perhaps the opposite of the way many people think of 'Evolution', but it's just so. Other critics have insisted on hearing this performance as transitional between bebop and "free jazz." That's a mistake; this music is more than some kind of 'missing link' fossil. This quintet was the livest jive in the jungle while it played. Don't miss it now!
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Just as the famous 1940-41 Jerry Newman recordings at Minton?s and Clark Monroe?s Uptown House captured the transition from Swing to Bebop, the music on this CD (compiled here in one set for the first time ever) marks one of the first steps from Bebop into what would soon be called 'Free Jazz'. The whole quintet consisted of modern players working with the same concept: a freer way of playing Jazz, which transcended the strict confines of melody, harmony and rhythm. They would create a whole new idiom by constructing music via the interplay of simultaneous collective improvisation. These concerts are the only known recorded works of Paul Bley with Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry or Billy Higgins, both separately and as a unit. Even though it may not have been a regular unit or a stylistically defined group, the quintet heard on these historic Hillcrest recordings shows a highly creative level, and transmits a contagious excitement and a continuous search for new musical ideas and new ways to express themselves that makes this music as impressive today as it was when it was first performed nearly fifty years ago. Gambit. 2007.Jazz CDs
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