Fire Music 2
Chappaqua Suite (2CD)
1996 release (light wear) **
1965: Conrad Rooks commissions Ornette Coleman to score his film Chappaqua, then declines to use the music - reportedly because it was too beautiful and would overwhelm the images, which may be the most flattering rejection in the history of commissioned art. The unused score, with Pharoah Sanders in the ensemble and orchestral textures surrounding the trio, became this sprawling four-part suite: Ornette at his most expansive, the alto soaring and grieving over mass…
Why Not? (CD)
1990 release (light wear) ** The second ESP-Disk' statement, 1966: Marion Brown with a killing band including Stanley Cowell at the piano, deepening everything the debut promised. The writing is stronger, the group interplay more spacious, and Brown's alto - that singing, speech-like sound, closer to a voice than almost any horn of the era - moves through the material with total assurance, balancing fire and lyricism phrase by phrase. The mid-sixties ESP sessions caught a whole generation at the…
Far Cry (CD)
1990 release (light wear) ** December 1960: Eric Dolphy and Booker Little's first recorded meeting, with Jaki Byard, Ron Carter and Roy Haynes completing a frighteningly good band - the Five Spot partnership taking its first documented steps, seven months before the club residency made it legend. The Charlie Parker tribute sequence - "Mrs. Parker of K.C.", "Ode to Charlie Parker" - shows exactly where Dolphy came from and how much love he carried forward; "Tenderly", solo alto saxophone, shows w…
Quintet (LP)
Very rare original edition on Ali’s own Survival Records of the 1973 album featuring James Blood Ulmer.
Swift Are The Winds Of Life (LP)
Rare original edition on Ali’s own Survival Records of the 1976 album.
People In Sorrow (LP)
1978 Japanese re-issue on Odeon's "Jazz All Time Favorites 1800" of the 1969 album.
Les Stances A Sophie (LP)
Rare 1970's re-press on Nessa of the 1970 album with the soundtrack to the Moshé Mizrahi film.
The Paris Session (2LP)
Original US edition on Arista/Freedom of the 1975 2LP compilation with tracks from Tutankhamun and The Spiritual recorded in 1969, plus two previously unreleased tracks.
Art Ensemble of Chicago, Archie Shepp, Clifford Thornton, Grachan Moncur III, Sunny Murray, Burton Greene
History Of Jazz: Vol. 10 (LP)1970 French compilation on Byg's "History Of Jazz" series with tracks from several albums released in 1969 on the label's "Actuel" series.
The Great Pretender (LP)
1984 Japanese re-issue on ECM's "ECM Collection 50" of the 1980 album. With insert.
All The Magic! (LP)
Original US edition on ECM of the 1983 double album.72 Japanese re-issue on Trio/Japo of the 1970 album. With insert.
Black Paladins (LP)
Original edition with white cover of the 1980 Italy-only album on Black Saint.
Another Earth (LP)
1970's re-issue on Milestone of the 1969 album featuring Pharoah Sanders.
Another Earth (LP)
1970's re-issue on Milestone of the 1969 album featuring Pharoah Sanders.
African Piano (LP)
1972 Japanese re-issue on Trio/Japo of the 1970 album. With insert.
African Dawn (LP)
Original Japanese edition on Enja Records of the 1983 album. With insert and obi.
Echoes From Africa (LP)
Original German edition on Enja Records of the 1979 album.
For Alto (2LP)
1972 original Japanese edition on Delmark's "Trio Jazz Mania" series of the 1971 double album. With insert.
The Complete Braxton (2LP)
Original French edition on Freedom of the 1973 double album featuring Dave Holland, Barry Altschul, Kenny Wheeler and Chick Corea.
The Complete Braxton Volume 2 (LP)
Original Japanese edition on Freedom's "Trio Jazz Mania" as two separate LP's - this is the second volume - of the 1973 double album featuring Dave Holland, Barry Altschul, Kenny Wheeler and Chick Corea. With insert.