Playing the Dream
Jul 31, 2020
3 minutes
BY ETHAN IVERSON
From the late 1950s until the early 1970s, Ornette Coleman’s most euphonious music was the product of a unique group of like-minded geniuses. The style was scrupulously avant-garde yet also melodic, bluesy, and swinging. Ornette’s original quartet included Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Billy Higgins; soon Ed Blackwell replaced Higgins; several years later, Dewey Redman joined the mix. The capstone of this era is 1972’s Science Fiction, collecting all these musicians and more for one of the greatest jazz LPs of all time.
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