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Bobby Bradford: Self-Determination in the Great Basin
by Clifford Allen
Born in Cleveland, Mississippi in 1934 and raised between Dallas and Los Angeles, trumpeter Bobby Bradford began playing with Ornette Coleman in Los Angeles in the 1950s, and replaced Don Cherry in an unrecorded Coleman quartet during the early 1960s. However, the most significant partnership in Bradford's musical life was with the clarinetist and composer John ...
Works
By Don Preston
Label: Crossfire Publications
Released: 2008
Track listing: Of No Consequence; Opus 5; Was Black; Was Found; The Winds of Change; Primeval #7; Opening Titles; Ode to Tinguely; The Bride Stripped Bare; Homage to FZ.
Don Preston: Works
by John Barron
Keyboardist/composer Don Preston, who is probably best known for his work with Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, is deeply rooted in contemporary classical music--Preston has scored more than twenty feature films and fourteen plays. Works is a ten track retrospective of Preston's classically influenced works, spanning from 1965 to the present. The ...
Transformation
By Don Preston
Label: Cryptogramophone
Released: 2001
Track listing: The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbeque; Walking BatterieWoman; Inner Blues (not a blues); I Love You; The Lind Sonata; Ode to the Flower Maiden; The Donkey; Transformation; The Prehistoric Eons.
Don Preston Trio: Transformation
by AAJ Staff
Pianist Don Preston brings together an unusual combination of composure and freedom on his trio disc Transformation. While most of these pieces assume a reflective posture, the group also takes its liberties and spikes the mix with a good dose of healthy dissonance. That unassuming energy may reflect itself as melodic flights around the edges of ...
