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Don Pullen: The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint & Soul Note
by AAJ Italy Staff
Credo che ciascuno ricordi bene in quale occasione sia stato folgorato da un compositore, da un solista. Quell'attimo in cui la sensibilità sonora è stata sedotta da una frase, da un timbro, da un ritmo. Nel caso di Don Pullen, la memoria torna facilmente all'ascolto di Changes Two di Mingus: il pianista proiettava i brani, già ottimi, in una dimensione di ulteriore profondità, il suo solismo era qualcosa di mai udito, una sorta di sintesi feroce tra Cecil Taylor e ...
Continue ReadingDon Pullen: Ode to the Life Lived
by Raul d'Gama Rose
He is being carried on wings, a Black Icarus, further up, higher than the sun, so the wings will not fail this time. They carry him and the fingers of his left--and all those mad block chords from God knows where--and his right hand--running along the ebony and ivory keys drawing clusters of notes in elliptical swirls they call jazz, from knuckles and fingers into the rarefied atmosphere, where he hooks up for a gig in the sky. ...
Continue ReadingDon Pullen: Mosaic Select
by George Harris
Don Pullen, with his heart firmly rooted in gospel, bop and blues, and with his hands grasping on to free-form dissonance, was one of the very last truly original jazz pianists. He found a musical soulmate in tenor George Adams, who was similarly blessed with a unique tone: one foot in with the Texas tenors and the other falling through an elevator shaft. The Don Pullen/George Adams Quartet of the '80s became one of the last great and original bands. ...
Continue ReadingDon Pullen: Don Pullen: Mosaic Select 13
by AAJ Staff
Hit play on just about any Don Pullen record and three things will strike you right away: his fierceness of spirit, deep respect for melody, and a barely-restrained urge to out-and-out make some noise. The late pianist's subversive tendencies come through most apparently in the form of punchy clusters and glissandi, exercised in giant sweeping swaths of sound that warp the focus of his music in unpredictable ways. But it's time to put the stale, superficial comparisons with Cecil Taylor ...
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