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- Old and New Dreams war ein US-amerikanisches Avantgarde-Jazz-Quartett, das von 1976 bis 1987 bestand. Old and New Dreams wurden im Jahre 1976 von drei ehemaligen Mitgliedern des Ornette Coleman Quartetts, dem Trompeter Don Cherry, dem Bassisten Charlie Haden und dem Schlagzeuger Ed Blackwell, zusammen mit Dewey Redman, einem weiteren ehemaligen Sideman Colemans, als Bandprojekt gegründet. Entsprechend stark sind viele Titel des Quartetts dem Werk des Free-Jazz-Pioniers verpflichtet, wie Lonely Woman auf dem ersten Album, Broken Shadows auf Playing und Happy House auf dem letzten Album von 1987, die als „dramatische Kabinettstücke“ behandelt wurden, so John Litwiler. Außerdem spielte das Quartett Kompositionen aller Bandmitglieder und verarbeitete dabei Einflüsse afrikanischer Musik (Togo, 1979), aber auch des New Orleans Jazz (auf dem Livealbum A Tribute to Blackwell). Die Formation fand zunächst gelegentlich einer Tournee zusammen und ging dabei zum ersten Mal ins Aufnahmestudio. Auf dem Black Saint Label erschien 1976 ein Studioalbum, mit dem Namen der Band als Titel sowie später das im November 1987 entstandene Livealbum A Tribute to Blackwell, das das letzte Konzert anlässlich einer Geburtstagsfeier für Blackwell dokumentiert. Die Gruppe veröffentlichte zudem zwei Alben auf dem Label ECM Records, Old and New Dreams aufgenommen im Osloer Talent Studio im August 1979 und das Livealbum Playing, aufgenommen im Juni 1980 in Bregenz. 2017 erschien noch das Album Live in Saalfelden, 1986 bei Condition West Recordings. Blackwell starb 1992, Cherry 1995, Redman 2006 und Haden im Jahr 2014. (de)
- Old and New Dreams was an American jazz group that was active from 1976 to 1987. The group was composed of tenor saxophone player Dewey Redman (doubling on musette), bassist Charlie Haden, trumpeter Don Cherry and drummer Ed Blackwell. All of the members were former sidemen of free jazz progenitor and alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman, and the group played a mix of Coleman's compositions and originals by the band members. The members of Old and New Dreams had deep personal and musical ties to Coleman. Dewey Redman attended high school in Fort Worth, Texas, where his classmates and bandmates were Coleman, Charles Moffett, and Prince Lasha. He was featured on a number of Coleman's albums, beginning with New York Is Now! and Love Call, both recorded in the spring of 1968. Ed Blackwell met Coleman in New Orleans in 1949, and the two later shared a house in Los Angeles. Blackwell joined Coleman's band in 1959 during a gig at the Five Spot, replacing Billy Higgins, who lost his cabaret card. He made his first recorded appearance with Coleman in 1960 on This Is Our Music. Don Cherry met Coleman in the mid-1950s while playing in a band called the Jazz Messiahs, and, after joining his band, was featured on over a dozen albums with Coleman, beginning with the saxophonist's 1958 debut recording Something Else!!!!. Charlie Haden met Coleman shortly after the 1958 recording session, and at the time was playing with Paul Bley. In the fall of 1958, Coleman, Cherry, Haden, and Higgins joined Bley for a six-week job at the Hilcrest Club in Los Angeles, recording the material released in the 1970s on Live at the Hilcrest Club 1958 and Coleman Classics Volume 1, after which the four continued as a quartet, with Blackwell later replacing Higgins. Cherry, Haden, and Blackwell appeared with John Coltrane on the album The Avant-Garde, recorded in 1960 and featuring three Coleman compositions, and continued to record extensively with Coleman through the 1960s and 1970s. In the early 1970s, Redman and Haden, along with drummer Paul Motian, joined Keith Jarrett's band, while Cherry and Blackwell toured and recorded together. The four also appeared together on the Coleman albums Science Fiction and Broken Shadows, recorded in 1971. In 1975, Coleman formed his electric band Prime Time, and shortly afterward, Jarrett's group disbanded. The following year, after the notion of reforming the acoustic Coleman quartet fell through, the four recorded their first album as Old and New Dreams. Regarding the group's origins and approach to improvisation, Haden commented: "before we met, all of us were already hearing and wanting to play things that other musicians weren't playing... We were after something like pure spontaneity... improvising on the feeling of the tunes we were playing rather than on the chord structures. When we would try that individually, back in the mid-1950s, the musicians we were playing with would get upset. But when we finally got together, we were able to play the most spontaneous music we'd ever played." He continued: "Some people still think that we just get up and start improvising... but our playing has its own structure. Instead of following a regular chord pattern, we use the melodies of the compositions as a guide and create new chord structures every time we play them. That's why playing really challenging compositions, Ornette's and our own, is so important to us. In a similar vein, Redman stated: "the improvisation... relates to the melody, whatever the melody is stated at the beginning, and you, when you improvise around that... you're relating to that structure. However, that can be very complex, because... you might be thinking of the melody, but you might also be thinking of... different phrases that go with the melody or maybe go against the melody." The group toured intermittently over a period of roughly eleven years, and released two records on the German jazz label ECM: a self-titled release in 1979 and Playing, recorded live, a year later. These discs were bookended by a pair of discs on the Italian Black Saint label: a studio record from 1976 (also self-titled) and 1987's A Tribute to Blackwell, capturing a performance at a birthday celebration for Blackwell. A 1986 performance, with Paul Motian substituting for Blackwell, was released by Condition West Recordings in 2017 with the title Old and New Dreams Live in Saalfelden, 1986. Cherry and Blackwell later appeared (without Redman) on Haden's 1989 album The Montreal Tapes: with Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell, and the entire group reunited for the last time in 1991 at Alice Tully Hall for an event called "Dewey's Circle", where they were joined by pianist Geri Allen. Blackwell died in 1992, Cherry in 1995, Redman in 2006, and Haden in 2014. In 2017, Dewey Redman's son, saxophonist Joshua Redman, recorded Still Dreaming as a tribute to Old and New Dreams. (en)
- Old and New Dreams è stato un quartetto jazz attivo tra il 1976 e il 1987 formato da Dewey Redman al sassofono tenore, Don Cherry alla cornetta, Charlie Haden al contrabbasso e Ed Blackwell alla batteria. Il gruppo ha origine dall'esperienza di tutti i membri con il sassofonista Ornette Coleman che negli anni sessanta aveva dato l'impulso all'allora nascente stile free jazz con l'album omonimo pubblicato nel 1961 e in cui sono presenti Cherry, Haden e Blackwell. Anche Redman collaborò successivamente con Coleman tra il 1968 al 1972, comparendo in alcune incisioni di quegli anni. Questo legame è evidente anche dai brani suonati dal quartetto, esclusivamente composizioni originali o di Ornette dei primi anni sessanta. Diversi anni dopo l'ultimo concerto del gruppo, nel 2018, Joshua Redman rende omaggio al padre e alla storica formazione nell'album Still Dreaming in cui sono presenti reinterpretazioni di Comme Il Faut di Coleman e di Playing di Charlie Haden. (it)
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- Old and New Dreams war ein US-amerikanisches Avantgarde-Jazz-Quartett, das von 1976 bis 1987 bestand. Old and New Dreams wurden im Jahre 1976 von drei ehemaligen Mitgliedern des Ornette Coleman Quartetts, dem Trompeter Don Cherry, dem Bassisten Charlie Haden und dem Schlagzeuger Ed Blackwell, zusammen mit Dewey Redman, einem weiteren ehemaligen Sideman Colemans, als Bandprojekt gegründet. Entsprechend stark sind viele Titel des Quartetts dem Werk des Free-Jazz-Pioniers verpflichtet, wie Lonely Woman auf dem ersten Album, Broken Shadows auf Playing und Happy House auf dem letzten Album von 1987, die als „dramatische Kabinettstücke“ behandelt wurden, so John Litwiler. Außerdem spielte das Quartett Kompositionen aller Bandmitglieder und verarbeitete dabei Einflüsse afrikanischer Musik (Togo, (de)
- Old and New Dreams was an American jazz group that was active from 1976 to 1987. The group was composed of tenor saxophone player Dewey Redman (doubling on musette), bassist Charlie Haden, trumpeter Don Cherry and drummer Ed Blackwell. All of the members were former sidemen of free jazz progenitor and alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman, and the group played a mix of Coleman's compositions and originals by the band members. Blackwell died in 1992, Cherry in 1995, Redman in 2006, and Haden in 2014. (en)
- Old and New Dreams è stato un quartetto jazz attivo tra il 1976 e il 1987 formato da Dewey Redman al sassofono tenore, Don Cherry alla cornetta, Charlie Haden al contrabbasso e Ed Blackwell alla batteria. Il gruppo ha origine dall'esperienza di tutti i membri con il sassofonista Ornette Coleman che negli anni sessanta aveva dato l'impulso all'allora nascente stile free jazz con l'album omonimo pubblicato nel 1961 e in cui sono presenti Cherry, Haden e Blackwell. Anche Redman collaborò successivamente con Coleman tra il 1968 al 1972, comparendo in alcune incisioni di quegli anni. Questo legame è evidente anche dai brani suonati dal quartetto, esclusivamente composizioni originali o di Ornette dei primi anni sessanta. Diversi anni dopo l'ultimo concerto del gruppo, nel 2018, Joshua Redman re (it)
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