Colors: Live from Leipzig

Colors: Live from Leipzig Artist: Ornette Coleman & Joachim Kühn
Label: Polygram Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 731453778924
EAN: 0731453778924
ASIN: B0000047FH


Release Date: 1997-08-19

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Listmania:

  1. All that you can FREE....Ornette
  2. CHANGE OF THE CENTURY: ORNETTE COLEMAN AUDIO GUIDE

Tracks:

  1. Faxing
  2. House Of Stained Glass
  3. Refills
  4. Story Writing
  5. Three Ways To One
  6. Passion Cultures
  7. Night Plans
  8. Cyber Cyber

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Angular, dissonant, yet lyrical.......2002-12-05

I just love this CD. I bought it in 1997, and it has held up strong after 5 years of listening.

I'm not certain what the earlier reviewer had against the combination of Ornette and Joachim. I would not describe Mr Kuhn's playing as cold; rather, I think he serves as a wonderful partner to Ornette's frantic, fiery playing - holding back whenever needed, and letting loose with a barrage of notes or just a plain intense attack when possible.

The loose, jamming sound of Ornette works beautifully in this duo setting. Pieces like Passion Cultures come across as powerfully poignant ballads, and the faster tunes, like Three Ways to One allow for amazing amounts of freedom for both of the musicians without it becoming overwhelming or too dense in sound.

All in all, a wonderful recording - I only wish I could have actually BEEN at the concert

3 out of 5 stars Not Much Direction.......2002-10-01

Can't say I care for this one much. It sounds like they didn't put much thought or planning into this, just got up on stage and jammed. Well, sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't. The problem might be the chemistry. Ornette has always been fiery and passionate, sometimes tender. Kýhn comes off as cold. This isn't a CD that I take out often.

5 out of 5 stars Great latterday Coleman.......2000-08-04

Ornette Coleman has always had a perverse genius for publicity & marketing. His erratic career, full of retirements, comebacks, aesthetic swerves & label-changes, has always rested on the bedrock of the amazing series of discs he recorded for Atlantic near the start of his career. He can grab attention for silly things (e.g. for including live bodypiercing as part of his act), yet I can't think of any other artist who could make news by the simple act of adding a piano to his group. That occurred with the two-CD set he did with Geri Allen; on this CD we have the even more unexpected situation of a saxophone-piano duet with the European pianist Joachim Kuhn. But there's no gainsaying it: this is one of Coleman's finest discs.

As usual the album is all (brand-new) originals. Coleman's alto shows remarkable similarities to other veterans of the age of Charlie Parker--sometimes his fragile tone & phrasing remind me of Konitz, for instance. He's happy to play the odd bit of bebop even: there's a spot here where he & Kuhn bat a bop lick around all 12 keys, for instance. Yet the music is unmistakably Coleman, & the duo sounds entirely sympathetic: I'd not encountered Kuhn before but he's obviously a very fine pianist, & isn't once thrown for a loop. Hard to fault this disc, which is one of Coleman's best latterday performances; there is the obligatory (& dispensable) trumpet-and-fiddle solo, but the rest is just fine.

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  3. Afro-Cuban Fantasy ~ Poncho Sanchez
  4. Live at Newport/Instant Death ~ Eddie Harris
  5. Desert Winds ~ Illinois Jacquet
  6. Fireworks! Red Hot & Blues ~ Jim Cullum Jr.
  7. The Land of Spirit and Light ~ Michael White
  8. If Trees Could Fly ~ Marc Johnson & Eric Longsworth
  9. Cherokee ~ Charlie Barnet
  10. Playground ~ Russell Malone

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The Shady Tree ~ Alison Statton & Spike

Haircut ~ George Thorogood & Destroyers

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