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Blue Note founders Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff were open to new ideas, which they proved time and again in the early 1960s when they signed some of the most experimental musicians on 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 Blue Note in 1965 that they dove headfirst into the avant-garde. Coleman and Cherry had, of course, already made history together years earlier when, as part of Coleman's revolutionary quartet, they took the New York jazz scene by storm with their performance at the Five Spot Café in 1959, showing them that there was something new in town. Although Cherry released the album “The Avant-Garde” with John Coltrane 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 just a few weeks earlier for his own Blue Note debut). In the fall of 1966, Cherry returned to Van Gelder Studio twice, first to record his extensive work “Symphony For Improvisers”, then for the fiery “Where Is Brooklyn?”. The latter was a highly interactive quartet session with Pharoah Sanders on tenor saxophone and piccolo, Henry Grimes on bass, and Ed Blackwell on drums, featuring five Cherry originals, including “Awake Nu” and “The Thing”.
As part of the extremely popular “Blue Note 85th Anniversary Reissue Series” Universal Music Japan presents the sonically impressive remastering of this jazz classic by the legendary Kevin Gray, who is also responsible for Blue Note US's analog reissues such as “Tone Poet” and “Classic Vinyl” – as a limited Japan only UHQCD with OBI stripe. The original recording sessions for “Where Is Brooklyn?” took place on November 11, 1966 at Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
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1. Awake Nu
2. Taste Maker
3. The Thing
4. There Is The Bomb
5. Unite