Old and New Dreams

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Old and New Dreams
General information
Genre (s) Avant-garde jazz
founding 1976
resolution 1987
Founding members
Tenor saxophone, musette
 Dewey Redman
Trumpet, piano, percussion
 Don Cherry
bass
 Charlie Haden
Drums
 Ed Blackwell

Old and New Dreams was an American avant-garde jazz quartet that existed from 1976 to 1987.

Old and New Dreams were founded in 1976 by three former members of the Ornette Coleman Quartet, trumpeter Don Cherry , bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Ed Blackwell , together with Dewey Redman , another former sideman of Colemans, as a band project. Accordingly, many of the quartet's tracks are deeply committed to the work of the free jazz pioneer, such as Lonely Woman on the first album, Broken Shadows on Playing and Happy House on the last album from 1987, which were treated as "dramatic cabinet pieces", according to John Litwiler. In addition, the quartet played compositions by all band members and processed influences from African music ( Togo , 1979), but also New Orleans jazz (on the live album A Tribute to Blackwell ).

The formation initially got together on an occasional tour and went to the recording studio for the first time. A studio album was released on the Black Saint Label in 1976, with the name of the band as the title and later the live album A Tribute to Blackwell , which was created in November 1987 and documents the last concert on the occasion of a birthday party for Blackwell. The group also released two albums on the ECM Records label , Old and New Dreams recorded in the Oslo Talent Studio in August 1979 and the live album Playing , recorded in June 1980 in Bregenz. In 2017 the album Live in Saalfelden was released, and in 1986 on Condition West Recordings .

Blackwell died in 1992, Cherry in 1995, Redman in 2006 and Haden in 2014.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ John Litwiler: Ornette Coleman: A Harmolodic Life , New York 1992, p. 171. Litwiler assumes that Old and New Dreams tried in a special way to further explore those innovations Colemans that are suitable for the mainstream. The quartet also recorded several previously unpublished compositions by Coleman: Handwoven , Open or Close , New Dream .

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