CODONA

I feel like I'm trespassing here as I've checked out this style of music years ago and I just have trouble appreciating it. Mind you if your going to take one album from this style you can't go wrong with this one. A trio with OREGON's Collin Walcott playing a variety of ethnic instruments, and how about Free Jazz legend Don Cherry along with Nana from Brazil playing a variety of ethnic percussive instruments.

It's like ethnic folk music really and I don't have the patience for it. I did think it was cool naming a track "Colemanwonder" it's only 3 1/2 minutes but opens with two Ornette Coleman pieces and ends with a Stevie Wonder bit, all unrecognizable. The opener and closer wre well over 10 minutes and this is where they stretch out but again I don't have the patience. Some might call this spiritual jazz because of who is involved and I should have mentioned this was released on the ECM label and that is a good home for this band, of course OREGON was there at the time.

They released three studio albums with this being the debut from 1979, and most feel this is their best. I do not like the album cover.