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.

Ornette Coleman live at Jazzfest Berlin 1971, 1972 & 1987

Ornette Coleman Quartet

Ornette Coleman: Alto Saxophone
Dewey Redman: Tenor Saxophone
Charlie Haden: Bass
Ed Blackwell: Drums

recorded live at Philharmonie, Berlin during Berliner Jazztage, November 5, 1971

1. Whom do you work for?
2. Broken shadows
3. Street woman

Ornette Coleman solo
Ornette Coleman: Alto Saxophone, Piano

recorded live at Philharmonie, Berlin during Berliner Jazztage, November 4, 1972

4. Love eyes

"The Original Quartet"
Ornette Coleman: Alto Saxophone
Don Cherry: Trumpet
Charlie Haden: Bass
Billy Higgins: Drums

recorded live at Delphi, Berlin during JazzFest Berlin, November 5, 1987

5. Peace warriors
6. Turn around

Rarely does one person change the way we listen to music, but such a man is Ornette Coleman. Since the late 1950s, when he burst on the New York jazz scene with his legendary engagement at the Five Spot, Coleman has been teaching the world new ways of listening to music. His revolutionary musical ideas have been controversial, but today his enormous contribution to modern music is recognized throughout the world.
Celebrating Ornette´s 80th birthday radio berlin opened the treasure chest… (Ornette on piano!!).
Be sure to buy Ornettes latest CD, the 2006 live album "Sound Grammar".