Old and New Dreams
Old and New Dreams was an American avant-garde jazz quartet, which consisted 1976-1987.
Old and New Dreams were in 1976 by three former members of the Ornette Coleman Quartet, trumpeter Don Cherry, bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Ed Blackwell, co-founded with Dewey Redman, another former sideman Colemans as a band project. According to many strong titles of the Quartet are the work of free jazz pioneer obliged like " Lonely Woman" on the first album, "Broken Shadows " on "Playing " and " Happy House " on the last album from 1987, as " dramatic showpieces " were treated ( John Litwiler ). In addition, the quartet played compositions of all band members and processed thereby influences of African music ( "Togo ", 1979), but also of the New Orleans Jazz ( on the live album "A Tribute to Blackwell ").
The formation was initially occasionally a tour together and went here for the first time into the recording studio. They released two albums on the ECM label, Old and New Dreams recorded in August 1979 and the live album Playing recorded in June 1980. On the Black Saint label appeared in 1976 studio album, also with the band as the title of the name and later the in November 1987 resulting live album a Tribute to Blackwell, documenting the final concert on the occasion of a birthday celebration for Blackwell.
Haden is the only surviving member of the quartet; Blackwell died in 1992, Cherry 1995 and Redman in 2006.
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- Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz, Second Edition, London, Penguin, 1996