The Ornette Coleman Trio - At The Golden Circle Stockholm Vol. 1

By the time saxophonist Ornette Coleman reemerged in January 1965 from a self-imposed "mini" retirement, with a successful run at New York's Village Vanguard, he was a new and improved jazz provocateur. The Vanguard gig began a yearlong stretch of activity that culminated in a November/December engagement at the Gyllende Cirklen — the Golden Circle, in Stockholm, Sweden.

"Two excellent full-length albums came out of the Golden Circle gig, The Ornette Coleman Trio at the Golden Circle, Stockholm, Vols. 1 & 2. Ornette led the same trio he'd used at Town Hall in '62, with bassist David Izenson and drummer Charles Moffett. The major change in the group was the evolution of Ornette himself. By 1965, he'd added two new instruments to his arsenal. Cuts like 'Faces and Places' and 'Dawn' might've been substantially similar in concept and execution to the type of music on his Atlantic albums, but performances such as 'Snowflakes and Sunshine' — with Ornette's highly expressionistic violin and trumpet work — and 'The Riddle' — with Izenson's trippingly dexterous pizzicato and agile arco bass — were strikingly different. These first two official Coleman recordings following his sabbatical showed Ornette to be as relentlessly inventive as ever." — Jazz.com