The Fabulous Paul Bley Quintet incl Ornette Coleman (Live at The Hillcrest Club, LA 1958)
The Fabulous Paul Bley Quintet incl Ornette Coleman (Live at The Hillcrest Club, LA 1958)
Jazz | APE (Img) + Log + Cue + Scans / MP3 (320 Kbs) | 160 & 73 MB | 1958 | Musidisc - 1993 | 31:20
Jazz | APE (Img) + Log + Cue + Scans / MP3 (320 Kbs) | 160 & 73 MB | 1958 | Musidisc - 1993 | 31:20
Features altoist Ornette Coleman live in concert shortly after making his first studio sessions. Musicians from what would be the Coleman Quartet (with trumpeter Don Cherry, bassist Charlie Haden, and drummer Billy Higgins) are heard at a live gig in Los Angeles under the leadership of pianist Paul Bley.
The music on this CD 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.
Don Cherry (t), Ornette Coleman (as), Paul Bley (p), Charlie Haden (b) and Billy Higgins (d)
Track Listing
1. Klactoveesedstene [12:07]
2. I Remember Harlem [3:52]
3. Blessing [9:38]
4. Free [5:39]
Recorded at the Hillcrest Club, Los Angeles, 1958
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