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Longineu Parsons: 25th Anniversary Work Song

by Chris Mosey
August 15, 2019

Longineu Parsons blows his trumpet with fearsome intensity on the first four tracks of this album celebrating the 25th anniversary of Nat Adderley's classic soul number “Work Song." Perhaps he blows it with enough intensity to wake the dead: Nat Adderley who died on January 2, 2000, is credited with production, while the great but largely unheralded Sam Rivers, who died on December 26, 2011, blows up a storm on reeds. The liner notes state: “It might ...