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Symphony for Improvisers is an album by Don Cherry that he recorded on September 19, 1966 at the Van Gelder Studios in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. It is a 39 minute free jazz album produced by Alfred Lion and released on the Blue Note label. The cover photograph was taken by Francis Wolff and designed by Reid Miles.

There are only two compositions on the album and both are by Don Cherry:

  1. “Symphony for Improvisers: Symphony for Improvisers/Nu Creative Love/What’s Not Serious?/Infant Happiness” – 19:43
  2. “Manhattan Cry: Manhattan Cry/Lunatic/Sparkle Plenty/Om Nu” – 19:17

The personnel on the session are leader and cornetist Don Cherry, tenor saxophonist Gato Barbieri, Pharoah Sanders: tenor saxophone and piccolo, Karl Berger on vibes and piano, bassist Henry Grimes, bassist Jean-François Jenny-Clark and drummer Ed Blackwell.

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