New York Is Now! New York Is Now! __notoc__ New York Is Now! is an album by the American jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman released on the Blue Note label in 1968. The album sees Coleman accompanied by John Coltrane's former rhythm section, drummer Elvin Jones and bassist Jimmy Garrison, and by tenor sax player Dewey Redman. Vocals are provided by Mel Fuhrman. It was recorded at A&R Studios, New York City in two sessions, on April 29 (tracks 1, 2, 4 & 6), and May 7 (tracks 3 & 5), 1968. Phil Freeman noted "The interplay between the two saxophonists was fierce,
The Docks of New York “the first in which his prodigious pictorial genius was fully realized.” A “deceptively simple” and ‘emotionally affecting film”, Sternberg combined spectacle and emotion, where "his characters gain in clarity what they lose in complexity." The film currently holds a score of 100% of the review site Rotten Tomatoes. The Docks of New York was added to the Criterion Collection in 2010 as part of the “Three Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg” series. Despite the lurid mise-en-scène that provides the canvas for Sternberg's imagination, the film is neither "a crime thriller, nor a hardboiled noir..."The Docks of New York" is