Organic Music Theatre: Festival De Jazz De Chateauvallon 1972

Captured here is the historic first Organic Music Theatre performance from the 1972 Festival de jazz de

Chateauvallon in the South of France, mastered from tapes recorded during its original live broadcast

on public TV. A life-affirming, multicultural patchwork of borrowed tunes suffused with the hallowed

aura of Don's extensive global travels, the performance documents the moment he publicly jettisoned

his identity as a jazz musician and represents the start of his communal "mystical" period, later

crystallized in recordings such as Organic Music Society, Relativity Suite, Brown Rice, and the soundtrack

for Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain.