Really great to have these 60+ year old recordings. Must have been great to be alive then to hear this kind of music fresh and new. Brilliant stuff - strongly recommended. Slight correction to line-up (beware - nerd-alert) according to Dial's own session records Tracks 15-18 on disc 1 were by "Charlie Parker's New Stars" (not All Stars) and Miles did not take part in these. The trumpet was Harold McGhee. All other band members are correct.
is what makes me get close to this wanna go back again blues ... Glad to have him on Vinyl.
Whaddaya know? The real dear from the actual rights holder! What a concept. Anyway, this is it. This is the bible of bebop. If the Complete Dials are too much (and I can understand) this is the essential stuff. Even Lover Man, when Bird bottoms out, it's all worth hearing. Some of the best music ever waxed. Give it a million stars.
Don Cherry began to make his mark with his first recording session, on February 10, 1958, as foil for freebopping alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman on music recorded for Something Else! Their bebop forebears Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker favored rough-sounding unison melodies, a departure from the swing era's smooth blends, but the Coleman-Cherry mix was scrappier still. As soloist, Don took cues from how Ornette's solos didn't track a tune's harmonies… more »
In Chicago, they all but carry him around in a sedan chair: Von Freeman, the tenor saxophonist who's educated umpteen young musicians on the bandstand. In 2002, the city named a stretch of E. 75th Street after him, down by the New Apartment Lounge where he's led Tuesday night jams for decades. Among the folks who came out for the ceremony were jazz guru Steve Coleman, who'd flown in just to honor one of his… more »
