The Ornette Coleman Trio

The first volume of At the “Golden Circle”, Stockholm places Ornette Coleman’s alto saxophone in front of his stripped‑down trio with David Izenzon on bass and Charles Moffett on drums, in a snowy club where the microphones catch every spark. Free of a chording instrument, the group moves with startling elasticity: themes flash by and dissolve into collective improvisation where roles are fluid. Coleman’s tone is both keening and tender, capable of slicing through the air or settling into fragile, vocal‑like lines. Izenzon and Moffett don’t accompany so much as orbit and provoke, creating a constantly shifting landscape under the horn. It’s live free jazz stripped of rhetoric, inviting the listener into the immediacy of three musicians thinking aloud at high speed.