Codona

Codona
Genres	Free jazz Jazz fusion
Years active	1978 (1978)–1982 (1982)
Labels	ECM

Past members	Don Cherry Nana Vasconcelos Collin Walcott

Codona was a free jazz and world fusion group which released three self-titled albums on the ECM label in 1978, 1980 and 1982.

The trio consisted of Don Cherry (trumpet, melodica, organ), Collin Walcott (tabla, sitar, percussion), and Nana Vasconcelos (berimbau, percussion).^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

The name of the group is derived from the first two letters of each of the member's first names.^[1]

Discography

1978: Codona (ECM 1132) ^[5]
1980: Codona 2 (ECM 1177) ^[6]
1982: Codona 3 (ECM 1243) ^[7]

2009: The Codona Trilogy (ECM 2033-35) (3 disc reissue of above titles)

References

Don Cherry

Studio albums	The Avant-Garde (1961) Complete Communion (1965) Symphony for Improvisers (1966) Where Is Brooklyn? (1966) Eternal Rhythm (1968) Orient (1971) Blue Lake (1971) Organic Music Society (1972) Relativity Suite with Jazz Composer's Orchestra (1973) Eternal Now (1973) Brown Rice (1975) Hear & Now (1976) El Corazón with Ed Blackwell (1982) Art Deco (1988) Multikulti (1991) Dona Nostra (1993)

with Old and New Dreams	Old and New Dreams (1976) Old and New Dreams (1979) Playing (1980) A Tribute to Blackwell ( 1987)

with Codona	Codona (1979) Codona 2 (1981) Codona 3 (1983)

with New York Contemporary Five	Consequences (1963) Archie Shepp & the New York Contemporary Five (1963) Bill Dixon 7-tette/Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary 5 (1964)

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