Don Cherry/Krzysztof Penderecki- ACTIONS (FOR FREE JAZZ ORCHESTRA) 1971

Don Cherry/Krzysztof Penderecki-ACTIONS (FOR FREE JAZZ ORCHESTRA) 1971

BBC Review (Excerpted):
Liner Notes Enclosed

Actions was recorded live in 1971 at Donaueschingen and features the "New Eternal Rhythm Orchestra" (especially assembled for this project to perform under the direction of Krystzof Penderecki and Don Cherry). The Orchestra were a veritable who's who of the then emerging European Free Jazz scene; Peter Brotzmann, Willem Breuker, Paul Rutherford and Han Bennink, plus Terje Rypdal, Kenny Wheeler and Tomasz Stanko are all in evidence.

Classical composers were finding that their interests and working methods (structured improvisation, graphic scores, conduction and gesture as composition) were overlapping with like-minded musicians from an altogether different area, that of free jazz.

(One can) hear echoes of Turkish folk and classical Indian rhythms on Cherry's pieces ("Sita Rama Encores") interspersed with explosive passages of 'energy' playing.

The Penderecki piece ("Actions for Free Jazz Orchestra") explores the balance between composition and improvisation in a less playful yet no less meaningful way.

Apparently influenced by the Original Globe Unity Orchestra piece of 1967, "Actions" often sounds more overtly 'jazz' than that group (...)

Ian R Watson 2002-11-20


































Side One:

Humus-The Life Exploring Force (Don Cherry) 19:17

Side Two:

Sita Rama Encores (Don Cherry) 6:42
Actions For Free Jazz Orchestra (Krzysztof Penderecki) 16:46

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