Ornette Coleman

condition (record/cover): NM / NM

Insert and obi included.

The second half of the 1965 Croydon evening, on a Japanese Trio pressing in the Freedom series: Ornette Coleman with David Izenzon and Charles Moffett, the trio in full flight before a British audience witnessing something it had literally never been allowed to hear before - the union ban on visiting American jazz musicians had kept Ornette out until this concert-artist loophole opened the door. Izenzon remains one of the most astonishing bassists ever documented, and the bowed counterlines he threads behind Ornette here are a complete music of their own, worth isolating on repeat listens; Moffett's dancing, parade-rooted pulse completes a group sound unlike any other in jazz before or since. Concert Ornette at the summit of the trio years, with the sense of occasion audible in every groove.

Japanese pressing quality throughout, and a beautiful way to own a genuinely historic night - the evening the door to Britain opened.