Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #62899 in Music
• Released on: 2006-04-04
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Original recording remastered, Best of
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

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Originally released in 1969 as separate LP's, Mu documents the album-length duos of trumpeter Don Cherry and drummer Ed Blackwell, both members of the Ornette Coleman quartet. This was a radical concept at the time, but the duo's empathy and stark beauty won many converts, leading to a spate of duo concept albums in the future. Cherry's darting, dancing trumpet and Blackwell's melodic polyrhythms are perfect foils, as each man has a gift for creating rifflike patterns that congeal and coalesce. Cherry substitutes flute and piano on several cuts, adding variety and additional colors to their obvious simpatico. The flute cuts, in particular "Amejelo" and "Bamboo Night," presage Cherry's later ventures into various ethnic strains of world music. --Wally Shoup

Album Description
UK reissue of 1995 compilation that combines both of the great jazz innovator's 1969 releases together on one CD. Possibly one of the first albums to put 'world music' on the map. Highly recommended! 2001 release.