Codona Trilogy (2008)

Product Summary Label: Universal Music Group UPC: 00602517674202 Release Date: 1/13/2009 Buy.com Sku: 210477347 Item#: M4JN2V Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Like That Of Sky - (with Colin Walcott) ~ Don Cherry (Jazz)/Nana Vasconcelos/Colin Walcott/Collin Walcott 2. Codona - (with Colin Walcott) ~ Don Cherry (Jazz)/Nana Vasconcelos/Colin Walcott/Collin Walcott 3. Colemanwonder: Race Face/Sortie/Sir Duke - (with Colin Walcott) ~ Don Cherry (Jazz)/Nana Vasconcelos/Colin Walcott/Collin Walcott 4. Mumakata - (with Colin Walcott) ~ Don Cherry (Jazz)/Nana Vasconcelos/Colin Walcott/Collin Walcott 5. New Light - (with Colin Walcott) ~ Don Cherry (Jazz)/Nana Vasconcelos/Colin Walcott/Collin Walcott Disc 2 Song Title Sample 1. Que Faser - (with Colin Walcott) ~ Don Cherry (Jazz)/Nana Vasconcelos/Colin Walcott/Collin Walcott 2. Godumaduma - (with Colin Walcott) ~ Don Cherry (Jazz)/Nana Vasconcelos/Colin Walcott/Collin Walcott 3. Malinye - (with Colin Walcott) ~ Don Cherry (Jazz)/Nana Vasconcelos/Colin Walcott/Collin Walcott 4. Drip-Dry - (with Colin Walcott) ~ Don Cherry (Jazz)/Nana Vasconcelos/Colin Walcott/Collin Walcott 5. Walking On Eggs - (with Colin Walcott) ~ Don Cherry (Jazz)/Nana Vasconcelos/Colin Walcott/Collin Walcott 6. Again And Again, Again - (with Colin Walcott) ~ Don Cherry (Jazz)/Nana Vasconcelos/Colin Walcott/Collin Walcott Disc 3 Song Title Sample 1. Goshakabuchi - (with Colin Walcott) ~ Don Cherry (Jazz)/Nana Vasconcelos/Colin Walcott/Collin Walcott 2. Hey Da Ba Doom - (with Colin Walcott) ~ Don Cherry (Jazz)/Nana Vasconcelos/Colin Walcott/Collin Walcott 3. Travel By Night - (with Colin Walcott) ~ Don Cherry (Jazz)/Nana Vasconcelos/Colin Walcott/Collin Walcott 4. Lullaby - (with Colin Walcott) ~ Don Cherry (Jazz)/Nana Vasconcelos/Colin Walcott/Collin Walcott 5. Trayra Boia - (with Colin Walcott) ~ Don Cherry (Jazz)/Nana Vasconcelos/Colin Walcott/Collin Walcott 6. Clicky Clacky - (with Colin Walcott) ~ Don Cherry (Jazz)/Nana Vasconcelos/Colin Walcott/Collin Walcott 7. Inner Organs - (with Colin Walcott) ~ Don Cherry (Jazz)/Nana Vasconcelos/Colin Walcott/Collin Walcott   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Personnel: Collin Walcott (vocals, hammer dulcimer, sitar, sanza, tabla, timpani); Don Cherry (vocals, flute, melodica, trumpet, cornet, organ); Nan  Vasconcelos (vocals, berimbau, talking drum, cuica, percussion). Liner Note Author: Steve Lake. Recording information: Bauer Studios, Ludwigsburg, Germany (09/1978-09/1982). Author: Don Cherry. Photographer: Robert Urmann. Arranger: Collin Walcott. In the late 1970s and early `80s Brazilian percussionist Nana Vasconcelos, trumpeter Don Cherry, and sitar and tabla player Collin Walcott made a trio of albums that explored the musicians' mutual interest in world music and avant-garde jazz improvisation. Originally released separately, the CONDONA albums were brought together and released as a box set by ECM in 2009. Those familiar with the catalogs of these pioneers will recognize the African, Indian, Middle Eastern, and Far Eastern influences, but it's the collaborative alchemy that makes these sessions glow. Largely atmospheric and ambient, the music on each of the CONDONA albums provides an entrancing, ever-alluring trip around the globe. In 2008 ECM Records began an ambitious and handsome reissue project that brought many catalog titles back into print, in handsome gatefold cardboard digipacks with original artwork, and sold them for budget prices. In 2009 ECM jumped into the game of reissuing catalog titles en masse with budget multiple-disc box sets. Among the first of these are the three mysterious albums by the all-acoustic trio Codona, whose members were multi-instrumentalists Collin Walcott, Don Cherry, and Nan  Vasconcelos. Codona are not often spoken of for their groundbreaking approach in melding world folk traditions to improvisation and jazz, but the truth is, they were at the very forefront. They used world music traditions authentically -- in the sense that each individual in the group had decades of study and immersion already under his belt before coming to the group -- without attempting to water anything down to make it fit. Codona were about listening and flow, and these three CDs are a monumental testament to that. Silence (not the new age artificial kind, but the true musical kind), space, interplay, compositional and improvisational discipline, and a sense of humor and playfulness mark these recordings as indispensable parts of the ECM catalog, and as important additions to each musician's r?sum?. The truth of the matter, whether they were playing two Ornette Coleman tunes bridged by one by Stevie Wonder as in "Colemanwonder" on their debut, African traditional music as in "Godumaduma" on Codona, Vol. 2, or an original tune such as "Hey Da Ba Doom" by Walcott on Codona, Vol. 3, the same elements were always applied, and always put to rather astonishingly adventurous use. No one composition sounds like another and no group of elements, regardless of how dissimilar -- from sitar, tabla, sanza, and hammered dulcimer; to berimbau, cuica, and talking drum; to trumpet, doussn'gouni, flutes, and melodica; to voices -- ever sounds out of place or strange no matter how exotic the setting. Codona were the sound of nature unveiled, of music engaged with the universe, of the genuine expertise and good will of a group of master musicians in dialogue with one another. This is remarkable music, and these recordings endure as well as still point the way to what is possible when players check their egos at the door in service of music itself. ~ Thom Jurek Producer: Manfred Eicher; Manfred Eicher Engineer: Martin Wieland; Robin Wieland   Compilation Appearances Top Hits Of 1956 Magic Moments: Best Of 50's Pop Mastercuts Jazz Cafe Top Hits Of The 50'S:fabulous Hits 50S Love Songs Variations In Time:jazz Perspective   Associated Artists and Works Codona Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Haden, Charlie Nelson, Willie New York Jazz Collective Simopoulos, Nana Togashi, Masahiko   Technical Info Release Date : 01/13/2009 Original Release Date : 2008 Catalog ID : 1767420 Label : ECM Records (USA) Number of Discs : 3 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00602517674202    Product Image