The Montreal Tapes: with Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell

The Montreal Tapes: with Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell
The Montreal Tapes: with Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell
Live album by Charlie Haden
Released	July 1994
Recorded	July 2, 1989
Venue	Quebec, Canada
Genre	Jazz
Length	58:21
Label	Verve
Producer	Daniel Vachon and Ruth Cameron
Charlie Haden chronology

The Montreal Tapes: with Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell is a live album by the American jazz bassist Charlie Haden with trumpeter Don Cherry and drummer Ed Blackwell recorded at the Montreal International Jazz Festival in 1989 and released on the Verve label.^[1]

Reception[edit]

The Allmusic review by Don Snowden awarded the album 4 stars, stating, "this trio lineup – call it either the original Coleman quartet sans Ornette or three-quarters of Old and New Dreams – still springs some surprises".^[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]

Track listing[edit]

All compositions by Ornette Coleman except as indicated

"The Sphinx" – 9:31
"Art Deco" (Don Cherry) – 6:24
"Happy House" – 8:24
"Lonely Woman" – 11:41
"Mopti" (Cherry) – 5:29
"The Blessing" – 6:01
"When Will the Blues Leave?" – 4:04
"Law Years" – 6:46

Recorded at the Festival de Jazz de Montreal in Canada on July 2, 1989

Personnel[edit]

Charlie Haden – bass
Don Cherry – pocket trumpet
Ed Blackwell – drums

References[edit]

^ Discogs album entry accessed December 5, 2011
^ ^a ^b Snowden, D. Allmusic Review accessed December 5, 2011

[Discogs_entry-1] Discogs album entry accessed December 5, 2011

[Allmusic-2] Snowden, D. Allmusic Review accessed December 5, 2011

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v t e Charlie Haden
Studio albums	As Long as There's Music (1978) Closeness (1976) The Golden Number (1977) Gitane (1978) Mágico (1980) Folk Songs (1981) Etudes (1988) Silence (1989) Dialogues (1990) First Song (1992) Steal Away (1995) Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories) (1997) None But the Lonely Heart (1997) Nocturne (2001) American Dreams (2002) Nightfall (2004) Land of the Sun (2004) Heartplay (2006) Come Sunday (2012)
Live albums	Time Remembers One Time Once (1981) The Montreal Tapes: with Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell (1994) The Montreal Tapes: with Paul Bley and Paul Motian (1994) Night and the City (1996) The Montreal Tapes: Liberation Music Orchestra (1997) The Montreal Tapes: with Geri Allen and Paul Motian (1997) The Montreal Tapes: with Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Paul Motian (1997) In Montreal (2001) The Montreal Tapes: Tribute to Joe Henderson (2003) Long Ago and Far Away (2007) Mágico: Carta de Amor (2012) Tokyo Adagio (2015)
Liberation Music Orchestra albums	Liberation Music Orchestra (1970) The Ballad of the Fallen (1983) Dream Keeper (1990) Not in Our Name (2005) Time/Life (2016)
Old and New Dreams albums	Old and New Dreams (1977) Old and New Dreams (1979) Playing (1981) A Tribute to Blackwell (1990)
Quartet West albums	Quartet West (1987) In Angel City (1988) Haunted Heart (1992) Always Say Goodbye (1994) Now Is the Hour (1996) The Art of the Song (1999) The Private Collection (2007) Sophisticated Ladies (2010)
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v t e Ed Blackwell
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	El Corazón (with Don Cherry, 1982)
Live albums	Red and Black in Willisau (with Dewey Redman, 1980) The Montreal Tapes: with Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell (with Charlie Haden and Don Cherry, 1989) What It Is? Ed Blackwell Project Vol. 1 (1992) What It Be Like? Ed Blackwell Project Vol. 2 (1992) Walls–Bridges (1992)
Related articles	Old and New Dreams