Complete Communion is a Jazz album by Don Cherry, originally released in 1966. On Gatefold: 38 pressings tracked.
About
Having shook up the jazz world with Ornette Coleman’s quartet beginning in 1959, trumpeter Don Cherry soon branched out on his own and became a major figure in his own right among the avant-garde. <i>Complete Communion</i> is the first of three albums he made for Blue Note in the mid-’60. The quartet, with tenor saxophonist Gato Barbieri, bassist Henry Grimes and drummer Ed Blackwell, has a ragged, loose-limbed energy akin to Coleman’s group, although Cherry plays cornet, not the pocket trumpet he used with Coleman (and would return to soon enough). Cherry and Blackwell were partners in Coleman’s group, and their shared language does much to shape the sound of this set. But Cherry’s rapport with the Argentine Barbieri seems equally effortless — <i>Complete Communion</i> indeed — on these snappy unison themes and folkish melodies over abstract swinging rhythm. Barbieri’s own work in the ’70s veered toward a smoother, more electric Latin-funk sound; here he hits on some Ornette-like phraseology at times but emerges with an earthy, adventurous voice of his own. .
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Tracklist
- 1Complete Communion: Complete Communion / And Now / Golden Heart / Remembrance20:42
- 2Elephantasy: Elephantasy / Our Feelings / Bishmallah / Wind, Sand and Stars19:38
Sound DNA
- Jazz
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Ed BlackwellDRUMS
- Gato BarbieriTENOR SAXOPHONE
- Henry GrimesBASS DOUBLE BASS
Rare pressing on Gatefold · 38 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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