Playing (album)

Playing is a live album by jazz quartet Old and New Dreams. It features trumpeter Don Cherry, saxophonist Dewey Redman, bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Ed Blackwell and was recorded in 1980 for the ECM label.^[1]

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars with reviewer Scott Yanow calling it "Recommended, as are Old and New Dreams' other three releases".^[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[3]

Track listing

"Happy House" (Ornette Coleman) - 11:07
"Mopti" (Don Cherry) - 7:56
"New Dream" (Coleman) - 9:04
"Rushour" (Dewey Redman) - 7:01
"Broken Shadows" (Coleman) - 9:58
"Playing" (Charlie Haden) - 9:46

Recorded at the Cornmarket Theater in Bregenz, Austria in June 1980

Personnel

References

↑ Old and New Dreams discography accessed May 3, 2011
1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed May 3, 2011
↑ Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 154. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

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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