From: smehta@kwela.nynexst.Com (Sandeep Mehta)
Subject: Re: Old and New Dreams
Reply-To: smehta@nynexst.com
Organization: Speech Technology, AI Lab, NYNEX S&T Inc, White Plains, NY
Date: 25 Aug 92 16:40:02


> jgthomas@crchh420.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (John Thomas) writes:

> How are these other ECM recordings?  I know PLAYING was
> recorded live but what was its song selection like?

I haven't played the ECM's in a while but I recall both being good.
The eponymous OaND album has one of my fave Haden comps - Song For
The Whales which he's performed in a solo context as well.

Records under name:
Old And New Dreams                                                ECM 1154 (CD)
Title: w/ Cherry, Redman, Haden, Blackwell.                                    
Recorded: 8/1979 at Talent Studio, Oslo, Norway                                
Released: 1979
With: Don Cherry, trumpet, piano                                               
      Dewey Redman, tenor sax, musette                                         
      Charlie Haden, bass                                                      
      Ed Blackwell, drums                                                      
Contents: 1) Lonely Woman                                              ( 12:18)
          2) Togo (Blackwell; based on Ghanese traditional)            ( 05:36)
          3) Guinea                                                    ( 05:29)
          4) Open Or Close                                             ( 08:05)
          5) Orbit of La-Ba                                            ( 07:24)
          6) Song For The Whales                                       ( 07:45)
          Total:                                                       ( 46:37)
Purchased: No Date
Comments: prod. Manfred Eicher. no leader listed; co-op group.                 

Old And New Dreams                                                ECM 1205 (CD)
Title: Playing                                                                 
Recorded: 6/1980 at live at Theater am Kornmarkt, Bregenz, Austria.            
Released: 1981
With: Don Cherry, trumpet, piano                                               
      Dewey Redman, tenor sax, musette                                         
      Charlie Haden, bass                                                      
      Ed Blackwell, drums                                                      
Contents: 1) Happy House (OC)                                          ( 11:07)
          2) Mopti                                                     ( 07:56)
          3) New Dream (OC)                                            ( 09:04)
          4) Rushour (Redman)                                          ( 07:01)
          5) Broken Shadows (OC)                                       ( 09:58)
          6) Playing (Haden)                                           ( 09:46)
          Total:                                                       ( 54:52)
Purchased: No Date
Comments: prod. Manfred Eicher. no leader listed; co-op group.                 

> Also, are there any other available recordings by this group?

There are a lot of recording with one or more ex-members of Ornette's
group but I don't know of specific titles under the OaND name.

I can, however, recommend the Blackwell/Redman duet recorded Live At
Willisau released on Black Saint. There is also the Cherry/Blackwell
duet EL CORAZON (ECM) which is very nice. Here you hear some of
Cherry's piano work and Monk interpretations which seems to have
become a regular habit of his :-) I can't say I enjoy his medley
approach to those pieces as much.

Cherry, Don                                                       ECM 1230 (CD)
Title: El Corazon                                                              
Recorded: 2/1982 at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg, Germany                      
Released: 1982
With: Don Cherry (leader), pocket trumpet, piano, melodica, doussn' gouni,
                           organ                                               
      Ed Blackwell (leader), drums, wood drum, cowbell                         
Contents: 1) Mutron / Bemsha Swing / Solidarity / Arabian Nightingale  ( 15:13)
          2) Roland Alphonso                                           ( 03:14)
          3) Makondi                                                   ( 03:45)
          4) Street Dancing                                            ( 02:18)
          5) Short Stuff / El Corazon / Rhythm for Runner              ( 07:24)
          6) Near-in                                                   ( 06:39)
          7) Voice of the Silence                                      ( 05:33)
          Total:                                                       ( 44:06)
Purchased: No Date
Comments: prod. Manfred Eicher.                                                
 

All three play on the Charles Brackeen album Rhythm X which is also
very good:

Brackeen, Charles                                    Strata East SES 19736 (LP)
Title: Rhythm X - The Music Of Charles Brackeen                                
Recorded: No Date at Unknown                                                   
Released: 1973
With: Charles Brackeen (leader), tenor sax                                     
      Don Cherry, trumpet                                                      
      Charlie Haden, bass                                                      
      Ed Blackwell, drums                                                      
Contents: 1) Rhythm X                                                  ( 08:03)
          2) Hour Glass                                                ( 11:31)
          3) Charles Concept                                           ( 07:50)
          4) C.B. Blues                                                ( 07:00)
          Total:                                                       ( 34:24)
Purchased: 1992
Comments: prod Clifford Jordan Jr.                                             
          This is the 4th LP in the Dolphy Series on Strata East.              


/sandeep
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