Don Cherry, Krzysztof Penderecki – Actions

A memorable live recording of a unique encounter between jazz and contemporary classical music is available again.

Don Cherry and Krzysztof Penderecki performed live in concert at the Donaueschingen Music Days in 1971. Since then, this festival has been of great importance not only for avant-garde music. Cherry and Penderecki were accompanied by the New Eternal Rhythm Orchestra. Most of its members have remained highly influential on the jazz scene and beyond over the last thirty years.

The live recording from Donaueschingen was only available on vinyl on the Wergo label and has been out of print for many years. Before ACTIONS was released on compact disc for the first time on Intuition, the original masters were carefully restored and digitally remastered at 24-bit.

Don Cherry: pocket trumpet, Chinese Shuan flute, South American Maya Bird flute, vocals / Loes MacGillycutty: vocals / Mocqui Cherry: tambura / The New Eternal Rhythm Orchestra (Manfred Schoof: trumpet, horn / Kenny Wheeler: trumpet, horn / Tomasz Stanko: trumpet, horn / Terje Rypdal: guitar / Paul Rutherford: Tuba / Albert Mangelsdorff: tuba / Gerd Dudek: tenor and soprano saxophone / Peter Brötzmann: tenor and bass saxophone / Willem Breuker: tenor saxophone, clarinet / Gunter Hampel: flute, bass clarinet / Fred van Hove: organ, piano / Buschi Niebergall: bass guitar / Peter Warren: bass guitar, electric bass / Han Bennink: Drums, Chinese wood blocks, tabla, thumb piano, percussion) / Krzysztof Penderecki: Conductor

Reviews

W. Stiefele in Jazzthetik 12/01: "For years, this document 'Actions' could only be read about in the literature, especially since the LP was out of print. Now at last the unusual sound event can finally be heard. And lo and behold: the free music reveals far more structure and form than was assumed at the time."