In All Languages is a 1987 double album

Double album

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 by Ornette Coleman

Ornette Coleman

Ornette Coleman is an American saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s....

. Coleman and the other members of his 1950s quartet, trumpet

Trumpet

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er Don Cherry

Don Cherry (jazz)

Donald Eugene Cherry was an innovative African-American jazz cornetist whose career began with a long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman. He went on to live in many parts of the world and work with a wide variety of musicians.-Biography:Cherry was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and...

, bassist

Double bass

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 Charlie Haden

Charlie Haden

Charles Edward Haden is an American jazz musician. He is a double bassist, probably best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman...

, and drum

Drum

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mer Billy Higgins

Billy Higgins

Billy Higgins was an American jazz drummer. He played mainly free jazz and hard bop.Higgins was born in Los Angeles, California. Higgins played on Ornette Coleman's first records, beginning in 1958...

, performed on one of the two record

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s, while his electrified

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 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

Caravan of Dreams

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, who also issued the title as a single cassette or compact disc

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. Coleman's record label, Harmolodic

Harmolodics

Harmolodics is the musical philosophy of jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman and is therefore associated primarily with the jazz avant-garde and the free jazz movement, although its implications extend beyond these limits...

, re-issued In All Languages in 1997 through a then-current distribution deal with Verve Records

Verve Records

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Side A (the Quartet)

1. "Peace Warriors" – 2:35
2. "Feet Music" – 3:32
3. "Africa is the Mirror of All Colors" – 2:58
4. "Word for Bird" – 3:16
5. "Space Church (Continuous Service)" - 3:59

Side B (the Quartet)

1. "Latin Genetics" – 3:39
2. "In All Languages" – 3:33
3. "Sound Manual" – 3:08
4. "Mothers of the Veil" – 3:45
5. "Cloning" – 3:14

Side C (Prime Time)

1. "Music News" – 3:00
2. "Mothers of the Veil" – 4:28
3. "The Art of Love is Happiness" – 2:29
4. "Latin Genetics" – 2:45
5. "Today, Yesterday and Tomorrow" – 3:10
6. "Listen Up" – 2:29
7. "Feet Music" – 3:49

Side D (Prime Time)

1. "Space Church (Continuous Service)" – 4:34
2. "Cloning" – 2:28
3. "In All Languages" – 3:06
4. "Biosphere" – 2:20
5. "Story Tellers" – 2:49
6. "Peace Warriors" – 2:23

Sides A and B (the Quartet)

• Ornette Coleman - Alto
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   and tenor saxophone
  Tenor saxophone
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• Don Cherry - Trumpet
• Charlie Haden - Double bass
• Billy Higgins - Drums

Sides C and D (Prime Time)

• Ornette Coleman - Saxophone and trumpet
• Denardo Coleman - Drums
• Calvin Weston - Drums
• Jamaaladeen Tacuma
  Jamaaladeen Tacuma
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   - Bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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• Al MacDowell - Bass guitar
• Charlie Ellerbee - Electric guitar
  Electric guitar
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• Bernie Nix
  Bern Nix
  Bern Nix is a jazz guitarist. He has recorded and performed with Ornette Coleman, notably playing alongside fellow guitarist Charlie Ellerbee in Coleman's Prime Time group on their key recordings from Dancing in Your Head in the mid-1970 to In All Languages in 1987.He has released CDs including ...
  
  - Electric Guitar