22 August 2010

Ornette Coleman Quartet - Live in Genoa '10

The best concert i've listened (till now) this summer.

Rec. live at "Arena del Mare", Genoa, Italy, on July 21, 2010
(mics recording)

Ornette Coleman,alto sax,trumpet,violin
Tony Falanga,double bass
Al MacDowell,electric bass
Denardo Coleman,drums

01. Tone Dialing (07:40)
02. Song World (08:19)
03. Jordan (07:24)
04. 9/11 (05:21)
05. Call To Duty (05:33)
06. Turnaround (06:22)
07. Blues Connotation (06:20)
08. Bach Prelude (05:31)
09. Peace (06:01)
10. Taking The Cure (04:22)
11. Sleep Talking (07:03)
12. The Sphinx (04:15)
13. Theme From A Symphony [Variation A] (05:45)
14. Song X (03:26)
15. Lonely Woman [encore] (04:36)

Total Time 1:28:04

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17 comments:

  1. riccardo22 August 2010 at 17:33:00 CEST

    mp3 (198 MB) :
    http://rapidshare.com/files/414271234/OCQ_Genoa_10_mp3.part1.rar

    http://rapidshare.com/files/414271238/OCQ_Genoa_10_mp3.part2.rar

    http://rapidshare.com/files/414271239/OCQ_Genoa_10_mp3.part3.rar

    flac (510 MB) :
    http://rapidshare.com/files/414271243/OCQ_Genoa_10_flac.part1.rar

    http://rapidshare.com/files/414282585/OCQ_Genoa_10_flac.part2.rar

    http://rapidshare.com/files/414282586/OCQ_Genoa_10_flac.part3.rar

    http://rapidshare.com/files/414293005/OCQ_Genoa_10_flac.part4.rar

    http://rapidshare.com/files/414293006/OCQ_Genoa_10_flac.part5.rar

    http://rapidshare.com/files/414293009/OCQ_Genoa_10_flac.part6.rar

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  2. riccardo22 August 2010 at 17:35:00 CEST

    a couple of videos :

    http://tv.repubblica.it/edizione/genova/ornette-coleman-il-concerto-a-genova/51116?video

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9Clqf0_CDw

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  3. Brakhage22 August 2010 at 20:19:00 CEST

    Hey, terrific, thank you!

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  4. LYM24 August 2010 at 20:13:00 CEST

    Hi Riccardo and everyone here!
    I don't agree with Your brief considerationa about this concert. I've been there too and it seemed to me really embarassing. Ornette has almost totally lost articulation and his blowing is so faint. Really better than this one has been, to my personal opinion, the Brass Bang! concert two days after at the same location. Anyway a great thanks to Riccardo for his invaluable work and astonishing generosity.

    SEE YOU LYM

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  5. riccardo25 August 2010 at 12:32:00 CEST

    Dear LYM,

    we've lost a chance for a personal meeting!

    Stated that i don't have seen the Brass Bang! concert,i think yours is a very personal (and respectable) opinion : all the people with whom i've spoken after the concert, or that have written about (Alberto Bazzurro, Giampiero Cane, etc), agree in judging this a "great concert".
    Nonetheless i've found stimulating your review on JazzItalia.

    thanks for the kind words.

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  6. Ilario Rozen25 August 2010 at 18:22:00 CEST

    hi mr. ric
    very great, many thanks

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  7. Anonymous27 August 2010 at 06:49:00 CEST

    There appears to be a guitarist on this recording ? Who is it.

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  8. riccardo27 August 2010 at 17:04:00 CEST

    @ anonymous

    Al MacDowell,electric bass

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  9. Derbyseville27 August 2010 at 21:03:00 CEST

    Yea man! I've been listening to this as well as that concert from 08' with the same band plus Joe Lovano on a couple tracks. A really incredible group sound. Even rivals the original quartet. Thank you very much.

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  10. Anonymous28 August 2010 at 22:30:00 CEST

    Thanks for this one. I have been listening to it everyday since. cheers.

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  11. Dick Bowman29 August 2010 at 10:06:00 CEST

    I think the concert shows the dilemma we often face with this music - that we treasure energy and innovation while needing to find some way to recognise past achievements. Certainly my thoughts as I listened to it were along the lines of how great some of the concerts were twenty or so years before - Coleman does seem to have lost a lot of vitality (at least here). I'm reminded of Milford Graves "lectures" where he talks of the vigour of youth being replaced by depth of experience. But age carries its penalties...

    And I do think the "what a friend we have in jesus" quotes are a bit over-repeated.

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  12. dee es31 August 2010 at 18:23:00 CEST

    Thanks for this, Riccardo. I pulled out the only other live recording I have of Ornette Coleman (the Town Hall concert of '62) for comparison. Maybe some of the alto playing is less vigorous and precise than it once was, but I think the violin works better here than any other recording I've heard. Sounds like a great concert to me.

    Just wondering, Ornette isn't playing violin and horn at the same time, is he? And Al MacDowell isn't playing electric bass and guitar at the same time is he? There seems to be a lot going on in some of these pieces. Perhaps they were invoking the ghost of R.R. Kirk?

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  13. Anonymous3 September 2010 at 10:53:00 CEST

    Thanks for this. I missed seeing them this year for the first time in years when they were in Europe. I love their playing and Ornette is such a gentleman. Looking forward to hearing this. Nick

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  14. matt w7 September 2010 at 05:44:00 CEST

    Thanks a lot for this. dee ess, I saw the same band a year or two ago, and Macdowell's bass often sounded like a guitar while Falanga alternated between some high bowing and some heavy snapping. So what sounds like violin playing along with sax could be Falanga, and so could what sounds like electric bass playing along with guitar. (Though I'm just starting to listen to this.)

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  15. Josh28 September 2015 at 04:40:00 CEST

    Can we get a re-up?

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  16. mew2323 April 2019 at 10:25:00 CEST

    Re-up

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  17. francisco santos27 April 2019 at 04:40:00 CEST

    EXCELLENT!...

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