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Codona - Blues Alley, Washington, DC, May 9, 1983
There's no such thing as too much Don Cherry, so after Sonny and Don in '62, let's listen to Collin, Don and Nana in '83! CoDoNa! I can never get enough of this trio. Here, we've got them towards the end of their all-too-brief run, right around the time of the third and final Codona LP. There should be at least five more records from these dudes, but Collin Walcott tragically died in a car accident in 1984. Weak!
This Blues Alley tape captures two sets from Codona, each moment brimming with imagination and curiosity. A joyful noise, with multiple peaks, including a gorgeous "New Light" and Don's West African train dream blues "Clicky Clacky." All aboard ...
Don Says: This wave and that wave, I feel now it's an all-wave music that's happening. The naturalness of music is what I want to be involved in. It's like the instruments are playing us and they're working with overtones and the idea is the swing of it. We're really creating a nice new boogie.
Egberto Gismonti, 'Sol Do Meio Dia' LP (ECM Records)
Sunday, November 21, 2021, 7:24pm (full listen)
EG is someone I've been aware of for probably 20 years, mostly as someone who made at least one record with Charlie Haden in the early 2000s, when I was starting to get obsessively into jazz and ECM Records, but I had no idea what he did/does, or even what instrument he plays, and it wasn't until I started taking chances on curious-looking ECM LPs at a nearby used record store that I started to rub up against his actual presence on records. It turns out he's primarily a guitarist, nylon string for the most part (and here, and 8-string one), but he also plays piano and also likes to throw in vocals, wood flutes, and other small instruments, and has a bit more of a folk music vibe generally, rather that overt jazziness. This album is a mixed bag of him playing with a variety of ECM regulars like Jan Garbarek, Ralph Towner, Nana Vasconcelos, and Colin Walcott (I'm a fan of Oregon, too, which features RT and CW, and also Codona, which features NV and CW alongside good ol' Don Cherry), so it was likely going to be a good listen, and it was, although my attention was not fully focused on it, so while I liked what I heard, I definitely need to revisit; a promising introduction to EG's work as a leader.
Don Cherry antes de Codona, mutante y galáctico (en el buen sentido, el de Sisa) con el Organic Music Theatre en los estudios de la RAI en 1976.
Los 40 minutos de actuación no tienen desperdicio. En ellos Cherry comparte escenario con su habitual Nana Vasconcelos en las percusiones, su esposa Moki cantando y tocando tamboura y el local Giampiero Pramaggiore en las voces, flauta y guitarra.
Ese Organic Music Theatre fue una comunidad errante de artistas de diferentes géneros y nacionalidades de espíritu participativo con respecto al público y a los niños en concreto.
AllMusic Staff Pick: Codona The Codona Trilogy October 6, 2008 Free Jazz
This box contains the three mysterious albums by the all-acoustic trio whose members were multi-instrumentalists Collin Walcott, Don Cherry, and Naná Vasconcelos. Codona are not often spoken of for their groundbreaking approach in melding world folk traditions to improvisation and jazz, but they were at the very forefront. Silence, space, interplay, compositional and improvisational discipline, and a sense of humor and playfulness mark these recordings as indispensable parts of the ECM catalog. - Thom Jurek
CODONA live in New York La Cueva Boreal CODONA live in New York, 1984. - Collin Walcott: sitar, tabla, dulcimer, sanza, voz... - Don Cherry: trompeta, organo, flautas, dossn'gouni, melodica, voz... - Nana Vasconcelos: percusiones, berimbau, cuica, voz..
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