Don Cherry - Complete Communion

Don Cherry — Complete Communion

180-gram gatefold LP

Mastered at Cohearent Audio from the original master tape

Plated and pressed at RTI

The Blue Note Tone Poet Series was born out of Blue Note President Don Was' admiration for the exceptional audiophile Blue Note LP reissues presented by Music Matters. Was brought Joe Harley (from Music Matters), a.k.a. the "Tone Poet," on board to curate and supervise a series of reissues from the Blue Note family of labels.

Blue Note founders Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff had open ears and open minds, as they proved time and time again through the early part of the 1960s as they documented some of the most adventurous players of the modern jazz scene including Andrew Hill, Eric Dolphy, and Tony Williams. But it wasn't until they brought Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry to the label in 1965 that they fully embraced the avant-garde. Coleman and Cherry had made history together years prior as the frontline of Coleman's revolutionary quartet that turned the jazz world on its ear in 1959 when it arrived at the Five Spot Café in NYC.

Though Cherry co-led the album The Avant-Garde with John Coltrane for Atlantic Records in 1961, his career as a bandleader began with his bold Blue Note debut Complete Communion recorded in December 1965 (Coleman had documented his new trio live at the Golden Circle in Stockholm for his own Blue Note debut just weeks before). On two extended side-long suites — "Complete Communion" and "Elephantasy" — Cherry expounds upon his expansive musical vision with a quartet of intrepid companions: tenor saxophonist Leandro "Gato" Barbeiri, bassist Henry Grimes, and drummer Edward Blackwell.

Side A

1. Complete Communion

2. And Now

3. Golden Heart

4. Remembrance

Side B

1. Elephantasy

2. Our Feelings

3. Bishmallah

4. Wind, Sand And Stars

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