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Article: Music and the Creative Spirit

Paal Nilssen-Love: Transforming the Boundaries of Creative Music

by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
February 2, 2009

He learned to play the drums before he could walk, battled cancer before the age of thirty, and is a driving force behind several of today's most innovative and progressive bands (Atomic, The Thing, Ken Vandermark, Frode Gjerstad and the Peter Brotzmann Tentet) just to name a few. He has taken the drums to new creative ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Don Pullen

December 25, 2008

All About Jazz is celebrating Don Pullen's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Don PullenDon Pullen - piano (1941 - 1995) Don Pullen developed an extended technique for the piano and a strikingly individual style, post-bop and modern, but retaining a strong feeling for the blues... more

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Article: Highly Opinionated

Don Pullen: Ode to the Life Lived

by Raul d'Gama Rose
August 22, 2008

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 ...

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Don Pullen: Mosaic Select 13

By Don Pullen

Label: Mosaic Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: CD1: 1. Mr. Smoothie (A) (6:04); 2. Just Foolin' Around (A) (6:19); 3. Song From The Old Country (A) (8:11); 4. We've Been Here All The Time (A) (9:09); 5. A Time For Sobriety (A) (9:42); 6. The Necessary Blues (or Thank You Very Much, Mr. Monk) (A) (13:33); 7. Sun Watchers (B) (5:43); 8. Serenade To Sariah (B) (7:35); 9. 1529 Gunn Street (For Johnny Holloway) (B) (6:14).
CD2: 1. Warm Up (B) (9:50); 2. Sing Me A Song Everlasting (For EBU and Hamiet Bluiett) (B) (10:30); 3. Another Reason To Celebrate (B) (8:44); 4. Jana's Delight (C) (5:56); 5. Once Upon A Time (C) (5:47); 6. Warriors (C) (6:45); 7. New Beginnings (C) (6:20); 8. At The Caf' Centrale (C) (6:52); 9. Reap The Whirlwind (C) (7:00).
CD3: 1. Andre's Ups And Downs (D) (5:19); 2. Randon Thoughts (D) (9:05); 3. Indio Gitano (D) (9:39); 4. The Dancer (For Diane McIntyre) (D) (5:58); 5. Endangered Species: African American Youth (D) (7:36); 6. 626 Fairfax (D) (6:40); 7. Ode To Life (For Maurice Quesnell) (D) (8:39); 8. Silence = Death (C) (10:12).

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Mosaic Select

By Don Pullen

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Article: Album Review

Don Pullen: Mosaic Select

by George Harris
July 11, 2005

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 ...

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Article: Album Review

Don Pullen: Don Pullen: Mosaic Select 13

Read "Don Pullen: Mosaic Select 13" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
January 18, 2005

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 ...

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