Ornette Coleman/Joachim Kühn

• Colors [Harmolodic/Verve, 1997] A-

See Also:

• Ornette Coleman
• Ornette Coleman and Prime Time
• Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman
• merge all

Consumer Guide Reviews:

Colors [Harmolodic/Verve, 1997]
Having divided his career between better-than-average fusion records that still weren't anything to write reviews about and explorations of his moderately prodigious classical chops, Kühn proves a serviceable helpmeet to genius. On this live-in-Leipzig duet album his pianistics comprise an exotically European environment for Ornette's transcultural sound and melody--a bracing change and a damn fine handle whether crashingly atonal or liltingly romantic. A-