Inconsistency in Science

Ornette Coleman - Quartet 1971 (1991) {Black Bird}
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Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Saxophone / Violin / Trumpet

It's a superb performance, featuring compositions from the late '60s and early '70s recorded on albums like Crisis and Science Fiction. In fact, the version of "Rock the Clock," one of Coleman's wilder songs, is arguably superior to the official one on the latter album. The group performs Charlie Haden's "Song for Che" in a fashion close to the original Liberation Music Orchestra rendition, including the interpolation of a Spanish protest song during the composer's solo.

Issued to celebrate Esa-Pekka Salonen’s time with the Los Angeles Philharmonic (he is now their first ever conductor laureate), this valuable disc really points us to how important Salonen may be seen one day as a composer. Although he reputedly sees his conducting activities as bill-paying ones, he is nevertheless ultra-high profile (he is presently principal conductor and artistic advisor of London’s Philharmonia Orchestra).