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“New York Is Now!” – a rather bold statement by saxophonist Ornette Coleman, but one that clearly illustrates his changing role: from one of the most important figures in the LA underground scene of the early 1960s to an artist who paved the way for an enormous wave of growth in the New York downtown scene in the years that followed! Ornette Coleman can be heard here in his late 1960s phase – freer than ever before and with a line-up that included Jimmy Garrison on bass and Elvin Jones on drums – still without piano – as well as Dewey Redman on tenor saxophone, who really made a name for himself with this album. Phil Freeman remarked: “The interplay is intense, and the rhythm section, taken over from John Coltrane, combined powerful swing with an indescribable gravitas. It is this sense of greater down-to-earthness that makes “New York Is Now!” so unique in Coleman's discography.”
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 “New York Is Now!” took place on April 29 and May 7, 1968 at A&R Studios in New York.
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1. The Garden Of Souls
2. Toy Dance
3. Broad Way Blues
4. Round Trip
5. We Now Interrupt For A Commercial