In All Languages
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| Ornette Coleman studio album | ||||
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Publication |
1987 |
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| Label (s) | Caravan of Dreams Productions or Harmolodic | |||
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DoLP, CD or DoCD |
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Title (number) |
23 (DoLP) |
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running time |
77:28 (DoLP) |
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Denardo Coleman , Kathleen Hoffman |
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Studio (s) |
Acoustilog Studios, New York City |
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In All Languages is a jazz album by Ornette Coleman . The two records were recorded with different line-ups: the first with his original quartet (who met for the first time in 1957 and recorded together since 1959), the second with his electric band Prime Time . The album, which was initially released like several other albums on an independent Texan label (which also operated a venue in Coleman's hometown of Fort Worth ), was re-released as a double CD in 1997 by his own label and distributed by Verve Records .
History of origin
Coleman has performed his own music since 1957 and wanted to commemorate this in 1987 with the album In All Languages and some events. The inside of the double LP is therefore entitled 30 Years of Harmolodic Music . Coleman went into the studio in February 1987 not only with his regular band Prime Time , but also with his old quartet, with whom he last worked in 1976.
Coleman recorded sixteen compositions for In All Languages , only two of which had long been in Prime Time's repertoire (but not yet published); seven compositions were interpreted by both groups. Coleman was also very pleased with the interpretations of his old quartet: “To me it sounded the same as it did when we first met; as if we were starting all over again, only that you can hear that each of us has been playing his instrument for a few decades longer. ”However, the quartet's recordings were partially reworked: A digital echo was added in Peace Warrior , in Space Church added overdubs with the synthesizer and added some more high tech accents.
After the recording, Coleman went on tour with Prime Time . In Boston he played a concert with both formations, where they also played a joint work DNA Meets , which is not documented on record. Don Cherry took part in concerts in Germany with Prime Time in the summer of 1987.
Track list
A. The Quartet
- Peace Warriors - 2:35
- Feet Music - 3:32
- Africa is the Mirror of All Colors - 2:58
- Word for Bird - 3:16
- Space Church (Continuos Services) - 3:59 *
- Latin Genetics - 3:39
- In All Languages - 3:33
- Sound Manual - 3:08
- Mothers of the Veil - 3:45
- Cloning - 3:14
B. Prime Time
- Music News - 3:00
- Mothers of the Veil - 4:28
- The Art of Love is Happiness - 2:29
- Latin Genetics - 2:45
- Today, Yesterday and Tomorrow - 3:10
- Listen Up - 2:29
- Feet Music - 3:49
- Space Church (Continuous Service) - 4:34
- Cloning - 2:28
- In All Languages - 3:06
- Biosphere - 2:20
- Story Tellers - 2:49
- Peace Warriors - 2:23
All compositions are by Ornette Coleman and have been published by Phrase Text Music ( ASCAP ). The track marked with * is missing from the first CD edition.
reception
Scott Yanow emphasizes in his review for Allmusic that it is an "unusual and very stimulating double CD" and gives it four out of five points. For Coleman biographer John Litweiler, the album was a "disappointment" despite the unusual line-up, because of the short pieces and the electronic arrangements. In the Down Beat , however, Bill Shoemaker emphasized: "In every piece, the program makes it clear that Coleman's revolution was and is always a revolution of unrestricted melody."
Peter Niklas Wilson emphasizes the “downright didactic character” of the album, “as if Coleman wanted the skeptics who mourn the old quartet that Prime Time can exist in a direct comparison.” When comparing the numbers recorded by the two formations, one is not only concerned “Fascinated by the continuity in Coleman's musical thinking”, but also “by the different colors in which identical melodic contours are shown in the two different contexts”. This is particularly evident in the title track to track: "Is the subject by the Quartet after the manner of the known free tempo - ballads argued with painted bass and subtle pelvic support " as among lay Denardo Coleman "the melody a heavy electronic backbeat , against the second drummer Calvin Weston on Swing style phrased characters sets, while the two guitarists and bassists build dense textures after all the harmolodischen art. "
Ralf Dombrowski , who included the album in his selection of the most important jazz albums, similarly emphasizes that it not only makes the harmolodic “idea transparent by contrasting the interpretive approaches”, but also documents “that you have a lot of fun on both levels” of the game playing music. "
Coleman was voted "Jazz Musician of the Year" in 1987 by Down Beat readers .
literature
- Ralf Dombrowski : Basis-Diskothek Jazz (= Reclams Universal Library. No. 18372). Reclam, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-15-018372-3 .
- John Litweiler: Ornette Coleman. A Harmolodic Life. Morrow & Cie, New York 1992.
- Peter Niklas Wilson: Ornette Coleman. His life, his music, his records. Oreos, Schaftlach 1989.
Web links
- In All Languages at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ In All Languages by Coleman, Ornette published July 22, 1997. or Ornette Coleman Quartet, The & Prime Time (5) - In All Languages (1987) on discogs.com
- ↑ a b c d Peter Niklas Wilson, Ornette Coleman. P. 175 ff.
- ↑ The recordings from 1976 fell victim to the bankruptcy of the Artist House label . Bassist Charlie Haden celebrated in February 1987: “I finally managed to get Ornette off Prime Time ”. quoted n. Peter Niklas Wilson, Ornette Coleman. P. 175.
- ↑ cit. n. Peter Niklas Wilson: Ornette Coleman. P. 176.
- ↑ See John Litweiler: Ornette Coleman. P. 193.
- ↑ See John Litweiler: Ornette Coleman. P. 192.
- ↑ cit. n. John Litweiler: Ornette Coleman. P. 192.
- ^ Ralf Dombrowski: Basis-Diskothek Jazz. P. 47.
- ↑ John Litweiler: Ornette Coleman. P. 194.