At the Golden Circle Stockholm

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At the Golden Circle Stockholm
At the Golden Circle Stockholm cover
Live album by Ornette Coleman
Released 1965
Recorded December 1965
Genre Free jazz
Avant-garde jazz
Length 82:55
Label Blue Note Records
Professional reviews
Ornette Coleman chronology
Chappaqua Suite
(1965)		 At the Golden Circle Stockholm
(1965)		 Empty Foxhole
(1966)

At the Golden Circle Stockholm is a two-volume album by the Ornette Coleman Trio, documenting concerts on the nights of December 3rd and 4th 1965 in the Gyllene Cirkeln club in Stockholm. It marked the beginning of his contract with Blue Note.

The music has been described as "brilliant, optimistic closely unified thematic improvisations".[1] "Snowflakes and Sunshine" marked the introduction of his unconventional violin and trumpet playing. "In Coleman's hands, both instruments are refunctioned into 'sound tools' (...) producers of sounds, rhythms and emotions."[2] The Penguin Guide to Jazz listed both volumes as part of its "Core Collection" and gave each a four-star rating (of a possible four stars).[3]

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All tracks written by Ornette Coleman.

[edit] Volume 1

  1. "Faces and Places"
  2. "European Echoes"
  3. "Dee Dee"
  4. "Dawn"

[edit] Volume 2

  1. "Snowflakes and Sunshine"
  2. "Morning Song"
  3. "The Riddle"
  4. "Antiques"

[edit] Personnel

[edit] References

  1. ^ Litweiler, John (1984). The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958. Da Capo. ISBN 0-306-80377-1. 
  2. ^ Jost, Ekkehard (1975). Free Jazz (Studies in Jazz Research 4). Universal Edition. 
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Brian Morton [1992] (2006). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings, 8th ed., The Penguin Guide to Jazz (in English), New York: Penguin, 258. ISBN 0-141-02327-9.