Product Review

3CD box brings together the marvellous albums made by the trio of free jazz trumpet innovator Don Cherry, Brazilian multi-instrumentalist Nana Vasconcelos and Anglo-Indian percussion expert Collin Walcott: Codona (1978), Codona 2 (1980), and Codona 3 (1982). These albums are also milestones in the history of improvisation between the genres. The beauty of Codona is in the trio's open-mindedness, proposing equal rights for all the idioms, and for music of all the continents.