The Golden Number (Verve By Request): Vinyl LP

Label: Verve
Release Date: 7th June

Charlie Haden doing some mind-melding free jazz bass duet workouts with 4 of the best jazz travellers in the game.

 In this collection of bass-led duets, Charlie Haden enlists Don Cherry (trumpet/flute), Archie Shepp (tenor), Hampton Hawes (piano) and a trumpet playing Ornette Coleman on the four tracks. Hawes’ playing on the Ornette-penned “Turnaround” is the clear straight-ahead highlight of this generally exploratory album. This Verve By Request title is pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Third Man in Detroit.

TRACKLIST:

Side A

1.    Out of Focus (feat. Don Cherry) 

2.   Shepp’s Way (feat. Archie Shepp)

Side B

1.    Turnaround (feat. Hampton Hawes)

2.   The Golden Number (feat. Ornette Coleman)