Cedar Song

Track Listings
 
1. Gathering
2. Calm
3. Longing
4. Woodlands
5. Brave
6. Ancestors
7. Ocarinas
8. Serenade
9. Canon
10. Luna
11. Loons

Editorial Reviews
Lifedance Distribution
A fine recording--one of the best of its genre.

Product Description
Cedar Song features Werner John, woodwind player par excellence and carver of Native American flutes, in his own compositions for Native flute. This is beautiful, moving music--some with flutes alone, some with flute, gentle keyboard and drum. Even people who have many Native flute albums count this among their favorites! (digital, 49 minutes)

Cedar Song

Cedar Song,Werner John

Cedar Song

Cedar Song
Glass Bead Games
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • A Love Supreme of the 1970s.
Glass Bead Games
Clifford Jordan
Manufacturer: Harvest Song
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000NW2AGW

Album Description

2006 Harvest Song issue, which, unlike certain other CD reissues, contains all of the material released on the original 1974 Strata-East double LP. This is one of the finest jazz sides released in the '70's and Jordan is in superb form throughout. The tunes and personnel are as follows: Clifford Jordan (ts) and Billy Higgins (d) play on all tracks. Along with Stanley Cowell (p) and Bill Lee (b), they play Powerful Paul Robeson; Cal Massey; John Coltrane; Eddie Harris; Biskit; Maimoun and Alias Buster Henry. Along with Cedar Walton (p) and Sam Jones (b), they play Glass Bead Games; Prayer To The People; Shoulders; Bridgework and One For Amos.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A Love Supreme of the 1970s. .......2007-07-07

This is the first and only domestic reissue of the two-LP 1974 release under the leadership of tenor saxophonist Clifford Jordan. Fetching skyhigh prices on eBay, then reissued only as a pricey Japanese import, it's small wonder the session's reputation and following exceed the number who have actually heard it. Rest assured that the music is not simply a "cult" curiosity. Although the instrumententation mirrors that of Coltrane's quartet, the music is strikingly different from "A Love Supreme," admittedly a primary inspirational source. Compared to the predecessor, "Glass Bead Games" is less prayerful and more playful, less searching and more knowing, less focused on the religious quest than its rewards. The rapturous intensity of the earlier date is replaced by the quiet energies of the benefactors of the progenitor-hero's journey. On "John Coltrane" the musicians chant the words "John Coltrane, Black Spirit; John Coltrane, first new born," but rather than the torrential, monolithic incantation of "A Love Supreme," theirs is the song of the children of the forebearer, discretely delighting in their newfound jouissance.

The two sessions constitute a revelation on several levels. First, the decade of the seventies was not entirely the funk and fusion, country and disco cultural wasteland it's been portrayed as: it did produce genuinely creative, uncompromisingly "human" new music within the jazz mainstream--and without electronic assists; second, Bill Lee was more than Spike's dad: he's a bassist with a singularly powerful, deep groove; third, Billy Higgins was, as so many musicians insist, a once-in-a-lifetime drummer: I don't hear the relentless swinger that Stanley Crouch raves about in the liner notes but a musician who's more like the bellows inspiriting the collective flame.

Most importantly, the always underrated, now largely forgotten Clifford Jordan was not just a formidable tenor player: he was a creator of the first order, his playing so effortless, unselfconscious, mature and profound that at a time when altissimo fury was all the rage, his fate was to be the neglected, overlooked Lester Young of his era. All the more's the pity that his work on Horace Silver's most ambitious and rewarding album, "Further Explorations," is unlikely to be heard because, inexplicably (even with all the other RVG reissues), this Silver session remains out of print. Nonetheless, "Glass Bead Games" does't require corollary support--it's a self-sufficient work of rare beauty. Don't expect to be immediately or merely "impressed." It "intrigues" upon the first listen. With each successive listening the musical conversation yields fresh new discoveries--playful, profound, inexhaustible, and immensely satisfying.

Compared to a Wayne Shorter on a session like "Footprints Live" Jordan is at once a more assertive soloist and more enabling force. Compared to a Michael Brecker on "Pilgrimage" Jordan is far more relaxed and low key yet paradoxically a more directive and shaping influence. His tone has as much "bottom" as "top," yet he makes the transitions between the two registers so effortlessly that the listener isn't conscious of them, as is also true of the quick alterations in dynamics. The climaxes, rather than spelled out, are merely suggested so that they register with deep and lasting impact on the listener. He's not a man content with a mere musical "dialogue" with his fellow musicians nor is he about to take the initiative in pulling his troops up to his level. Instead he begins to tell a musical story so compelling that his three comrades cannot resist contributing equally to what becomes a collaborative narrative--rhythmically, harmonically, melodically. This is brilliant music-making by a Coltrane-influenced successor who feels no obligation to mime the predecessor. It may be the most significant saxophone performance on record since Coltrane and, providing the listener stays with it for any length of time and repeated listenings, the most successful, satisfying creative jazz recording of the past 25 or more years. Jordan's game--so effortless, unforced, and centered--is simply inexhaustible. It erases distinctions between composed and improvised, soloist and ensemble, narrator and narrative, musical language and verbal language and, most importantly, performer and listener. To call the playing "remarkable" is to do it an injustice: rather, like Shakespeare's uses of language, it's representative and exemplary as a record of one instance of tapping into and then realizing the potential of the vast energy field that is human consciousness.

The 2nd quartet, with Cedar Walton and Sam Jones replacing Stanley Cowell and Bill Lee, doesn't have the freshness and magic of the first--some of the playing is sufficiently "self"-intruding to impede, if ever so slightly, the untampered flow of the game itself. But a single scintillating glass bead game is more than enough to make this recording a singular, quintessential, and comparatively late example of an enduring though fragile art form that America was once not too proud or insensible to claim as its own.

[Be careful about ordering the right copy. The problem is that the program listed with the album on Amazon as well as on most other sites, including All Music Guide, is totally inaccurate. It's a program belonging with a Strata-East release from 1975, "First Impressions," featuring Shamek Farrah--one of those Eastern recordings with mystical incantations and theological aspirations if not pretensions. "Glass Bead Games," on the other hand, is a 13-tune treasure that scintillates with inexhaustible life and beauty in the present moment thanks to the collective skills of the players. Don't settle for less. The 2006 U.S. reissue on Harvest Song is the right one, the first-ever complete release, made available in early 2007 by Jordan's widow. It's available, for the present, from only one source. Go to [...], music department, and do a search. The price, moreover, is more reasonable than the Japanese imports or eBay auction copies.]
Cedar Song
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    		Cedar Song

    Manufacturer: Hearth Island Music
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    Tracks:

    1. Gathering
    2. Calm
    3. Longing
    4. Woodlands
    5. Brave
    6. Ancestors
    7. Ocarinas
    8. Serenade
    9. Canon
    10. Luna
    11. Loons

    Album Description

    Cedar Song features Werner John, woodwind player par excellence and carver of Native American flutes, in his own compositions for Native flute. This is beautiful, moving music--some with flutes alone, some with flute, gentle keyboard and drum. Even people who have many Native flute albums count this among their favorites! (digital, 49 minutes)
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      • Good performance of good music
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      Edward MacDowell , James Barbagallo , and Steven Tharp
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      Customer Reviews:

      4 out of 5 stars Good performance of good music.......2002-04-05

      I find less to criticize than others in this music and performance. If you know MacDowell, you know the kinds of things to expect from these songs. Not great music, but still beautiful genteel songs. MacDowell lets the lyricism flow smoothly. Most of the songs float along in the 6/8 rhythm MacDowell used so often. Concentrating on the melodic line, some of the occasional awkwardly thorny harmonies you can find in his miniatures fade into the background. Indeed, some may think the piano is too far in the background here. Too bad, because the late James Barbagallo obviously had quite a gift for MacDowell interpretation. Check out his recordings of MacDowell's solo piano works. What of tenor Tharp? Some may find his voice a little too thin, with a bit too much vibrato. But I say the songs are well sung regardless. Maybe the problem is that the songs really required a woman's voice. But what's done is done. These complete songs needed to be recorded, and this performance quite adequate, reservations notwithstanding. Over all, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this recording.

      2 out of 5 stars Tepid music, tepid performances.......2000-03-26

      I'm sorry to have to say it, but this recording contains music that is undistinguished in performances that are competent only. The music is Grieg-and-water. The American tenor's voice is light-weight and charmless. The pianist is excellent. You can't beat the price, though, if you really want to hear this repertoire.
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              Mellow Cello: Pure Classical Gold
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