George Coleman At Yoshi's

Independent shop in BallardDirections

Available from Light in the Attic Records when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

When any recording made by George Coleman is issued, it’s an instant event. Though Coleman has always been busy performing, writing, and especially teaching, scant few LPs or CDs have come listeners’ way. It is especially thrilling to hear him live in concert performance at the initial site of the then newly minted Yoshi’s in Oakland, CA, as his extended techniques and heightened sense of tonal ideas come fully to the fore. Coleman and pianist Harold Mabern, both originally from the fertile jazz