Symphony for Improvisers

Symphony for Improvisers
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 1967
RecordedSeptember 19, 1966
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
GenreFree jazz
Length39:00
LabelBlue Note
BST 84247
ProducerAlfred Lion
Don Cherry chronology
Complete Communion
(1965)
Symphony for Improvisers
(1967)
Where is Brooklyn?
(1969)

Symphony for Improvisers is an album by American jazz trumpeter Don Cherry, released by Blue Note Records in August 1967. It features Gato Barbieri, Henry Grimes, and Ed Blackwell, all of whom appeared on Cherry's previous album Complete Communion, along with Karl Berger, Jean-François Jenny-Clark, and Pharoah Sanders. Symphony for Improvisers was recorded in 1966. The front cover photograph was taken at New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Upper West Side, New York City.

The tracks on Symphony for Improvisers were included in the compilation The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Don Cherry. In 2021, the Ezz-thetics label reissued Symphony For Improvisers along with Complete Communion on the compilation Complete Communion & Symphony For Improvisers Revisited.