In All Languages

Ornette Coleman | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 1, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B0000047DC
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #170,045 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Peace Warriors

2. Feet Music

3. Africa Is The Mirror Of All Colors

4. Word For Bird

5. Space Church (Continuous Services)

6. Latin Genetics

7. In All Languages

8. Sound Manual

9. Mothers Of The Veil

10. Cloning

11. Music News

12. Mothers Of The Veil

13. The Art Of Love Is Happiness

14. Latin Genetics

15. Today, Yesterday And Tomorrow

16. Listen Up

17. Feet Music

18. Space Church (Continuous Services)

19. Cloning

20. In All Languages

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I beg to differ..., December 16, 1999

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Karl Rosenberg (Wahington, DC and Haiti) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In All Languages (Audio CD)

I need to chime in here to counteract the review below. This album (along with Ornette's gritty collaboration with Pat Metheny on 1986's Song X which I'm sure sent many a Metheny fan to change the record during dinner parties across the world...those not hip enough to know anything about Orntte anyway)was a personal starting point in developing a deeper understanding of the avant garde movement. I had heard Free Jazz, but wasn't prepared to digest all it had to say at the time. In In all Languages (and Don Cherry's wonderful Art Deco)I found a basis for appreciation of what Ornette, Cherry, Haden and Higgins represented to the history of the music.

The Prime Time Cuts of roughly the same song list gave me further insight into a musician not willing to stand pat at a time when young Jazz revisionists were taking the movement backwards (no disrespect to the great work of the Marsalis brothers intended). 1989's Virgin Beauty doesn't quite live up to the Prime Time magic here.

So, while arguably not the greatest of Ornette's efforts...probably not as good even as Tone Dialing (for Prime Time fans) or either of the recent Sound Museums (for acoutic Ornette fans), and certainly not the statement that Something Else! or the Shape of Jazz to Come were in "the begining," In All Languages is a VERY worthwhile ride!

Long live Ornette and all hail the continuing growth of appreciation for Eric Dolphy. Peace

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Funk meets free jazz, May 4, 2000

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Jonathan Mayhew (Lawrence, KS USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In All Languages (Audio CD)

It's great to hear Ornette's classic quartet (Haden, Cherry, Higgins) get together again. The other disk features some of the same compositions played by Ornette's funk group "Prime Time." This is great music--the 4 stars indicates only that it cannot match the achievement of the original Atlantic recordings of 1959-1960.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ornette Coleman: In All Languages, March 30, 2000

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Dan - See all my reviews

This review is from: In All Languages (Audio CD)

Since my introduction to Ornette Coleman's art, I haven't been able to get enough recordings of his various groups and projects. This album brought so many things together for me and offered a new understanding of Harmelodic music. Hearing the two varied perspectives of the same concepts between Prime Time of 1987 and the original quartet of 1957 was astonishing. Hearing the varience from his original quartet to his experimentation with the two bass players and extravegent rhythm section including one my favorite bass players of all time: Jamaaladeen Tacuma was almost more than I could handle. If you're a true lover of harmelodic music or free jazz or the avant-garde, you've got to have this album. If you have this album or are getting it and like the stylings of Jamaaladeen Tacuma as much as I do, check out his other albums (Dreamscape is one of my favorites).