John Tchicai - Beautiful United Harmony Happening/The Education Of An Amphibian - VINYL LP

John Tchicai / Featuring Don Cherry Beautiful United Harmony Happening/The Education Of An Amphibian Alga Marghen/Formalibera present the first of a series of released documenting the work of Danish composer and multi-instrumentalist John Tchicai. This new LP features two previously unpublished recordings, InchBeautiful United Harmony HappeningInch with Don Cherry and InchEducation Of An AmphibianInch with Sahib Shihab. Tchicai returned to his native Denmark in July 1966 after spending a remarkable four years in New York City. In that short span, he helped redefine and expand the relationship between soloing, collective improvisation, and composition in small free jazz ensembles such as the New York Art Quartet, the New York Contemporary Five, and on albums such as New York Eye and Ear Control with Albert Ayler and John Coltrane's Ascension. It certainly counts as one of the most fertile periods in any artist's career. Yet when he returned to Europe, Tchicai turned his attention primarily (although not exclusively) to large ensemble music. The breakthroughs made in New York were not lost, but transferred to a large group context, opening up further avenues of exploration. InchThe Education of an AmphibianInch by the John Tchicai Octet represents a first try at InchKomponist Udøver Ensemble,Inch or InchComposing Improvisers Orchestra,Inch an approach that further blurred boundaries between improvisation and composition. Recorded in October 1966, the piece presents Tchicai as composer and guiding presence; an organizer of sounds; and an explorer of a widening musical vocabulary drawn from contemporary classical and African influences. InchBeautiful United Harmony HappeningInch is something different - an opportunity to embrace new modes of interdisciplinary performance. From the beginning of his return to Denmark, Tchicai sought out not only musicians, but artists in al