Ornette Coleman Quartet: 219th NDR Jazzconcert Hamburg 1987

Ornette Coleman, as, tp
Don Cherry, tp
Charlie Haden, b
Billy Higgins, dr

recorded live at NDR Studio 10, Hamburg, October 29, 1987

1. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
2. Latin Genetics
3. Chanting
4. Africa Is The Mirror of All Colours
5. The Art Of Love Is Happiness

This concert has been circled among tape traders for years and is available on several download sites. Here I can offer a recently digitally broadcast excerpt featuring his legendary quartet. In 1987 Ornette released the double album "In All Languages". Ornette and the other members of his 1950s quartet, trumpeter Don Cherry, bassist Charlie Haden, and drummer Billy Higgins, performed on one of the two records, while his electrified ensemble, Prime Time, performed on the other. Many of the songs on In All Languages had two renditions, one by each group.
The double album was originally released by Caravan of Dreams, who also issued the title as a single cassette or compact disc. Coleman's record label, Harmolodic, re-issued In All Languages in 1997 through a then-current distribution deal with Verve Records.