In All Languages
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| Studio album by Ornette Coleman | ||||
| Released | February 1987 | |||
| Genre | Free jazz, harmolodic funk | |||
| Length | 73:29 | |||
| Label | Caravan of Dreams | |||
| Producer | Kathelin Hoffman (exec. producer) & Denardo Coleman (producer) | |||
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| AllMusic |   |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide |  |
| Spin | 8/10 |
| The Village Voice | A |
In All Languages is a 1987 double album by Ornette Coleman. Coleman and the other members of his 1950s quartet, trumpeter Don Cherry, bassist Charlie Haden, and drummer Billy Higgins, performed on one of the two records, while his electrified ensemble, Prime Time, performed on the other. Many of the songs on In All Languages had two renditions, one by each group.
The double album was originally released by Caravan of Dreams, which also issued the title as a single cassette or compact disc. Coleman's record label, Harmolodic, re-issued In All Languages in 1997 through a marketing and distribution deal with Verve Records.
Geoffrey Himes of JazzTimes wrote that the album's approach "may sound very avant-garde, but it's not so different from a Dixieland combo that stands to solo all at once on the final chorus or from a pre-war blues band that shifts from D to D-flat and from 1 2 bars to 13 in pursuit of a song." For the album, Coleman recorded both his original quartet and his newer Prime Time band in the same studio within the same period. Option magazine remarked that In All Languages showcases the differences between his original quartet's free jazz and the harmolodic funk of his Prime Time band.
In a contemporary review for The Village Voice, music critic Robert Christgau praised Coleman as a persistently lyrical iconoclast and felt that the Quartet sounded more intense than ever before because of how they follow Coleman's harmolodic funk approach and "the dense flow of Of Human Feelings". In his review for Playboy, Christgau cited the album as "an ideal introduction" to Coleman's music and remarked that, despite Coleman's restless playing, Prime Time's chemistry and the brevity of the songs "assure a coherence that coexists with constant surprise as in no other music."In All Languages was voted the eleventh best album of the year in The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics poll for 1987. Christgau, the poll's creator, named it the fourth best album of 1987 in his own list.
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