Release Date: 01 February 2019
Label: Strata-east / Pure Pleasure Records
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060149622902
Genres: Jazz
Description
180g audiophile vinyl reissue, remastering by Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London.
"On this record, the little-known Charles Brackeen brings his saxophone to a party with most of Ornette Coleman's band. As might be expected, while Brackeen certainly holds his own, it's Ornette's boys who bring the thunder, playing around Brackeen's muscular alto as if they were a gang jumping on a new member.
Haden's bass playing provides the frantic pulse, here and there ceding the stage to Blackwell's flexible drumming and dropping out to provide rolling sheets of sound by bowing his instrument. Brackeen and Cherry wrestle across this solid bedrock, with results that are often surprising and never short of beautiful." - Rob Ferrier, AllMusic
Charles Brackeen: saxophone
Don Cherry: trumpet
Charlie Haden: bass
Edward Blackwell: drums
Produced by: Clifford Jordan
All compositions by Charles Brackeen
Recorded in New York 1968
Tracklisting
Nina Simone
Archie Shepp & Mal Waldron
The Descendants Of Mike & Phoebe
Lonnie Liston Smith
Nat King Cole
David Murray
John Stubblefield
The Piano Choir
Klaus Gesing, Ana Pilat, Latvian Radio Big Band,
Maik Krahl
Duke Ellington
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald
Kurt Elling
Anita Wardell
Anita Wardell
