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Jazz Musician of the Day: Don Pullen

December 25, 2016

All About Jazz is celebrating Don Pullen's birthday today! 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. He produced acknowledged masterworks of jazz in a range of formats and styles, crossing and mixing genres long before this became almost ...

Article: Album Review

Francisco Mela & The Crash Trio: Fe

by James Nadal
August 30, 2016

Since departing Cuba to study at Berklee in 2000, drummer Francisco Mela has been on a meteoric trajectory throughout the jazz dominion. In 2005 he joined the Joe Lovano Quartet, and in 2009 the McCoy Tyner Trio, all the while releasing three critically acclaimed albums as leader. Fe is his first venture with The Crash Trio, ...

Article: Album Review

Roberto Magris: Need to Bring Out Love

Read "Need to Bring Out Love" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
April 5, 2016

Perhaps the best word with which to describe Italian-born pianist Roberto Magris is busy. Since launching his career in the late '70s, the fifty-six-year-old keyboardist has performed with a veritable who's who of jazz luminaries in forty-one countries, and Need to Bring Out Love is his twenty-seventh album as leader of his own groups (in this ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Howard Riley: Reinventing the Jazz Piano Trio

by Duncan Heining
January 3, 2016

Even allowing for journalistic hyperbole, the phrase “reinventing the jazz piano trio" was a doozy. It all seemed a bit “Emperor's new clothes" or, as my late mother used to put it, “new coat and no knickers." For a time in the noughties, British critics variously applied the phrase to Esbjorn Svensson, Brad Mehldau, The Necks, ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Don Pullen

December 25, 2015

Article: Album Review

Milford Graves/Bill Laswell: Space / Time - Redemption

Read "Space / Time - Redemption" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
July 5, 2015

Drummer Milford Graves boasts a pedigree stretching back to the first tide of Free Jazz in the 1960s, most prominently as the drummer for the storied New York Art Quartet. His infrequent forays onto disc since have resulted in underground classics such as Nommo (SRP, 1966) with pianist Don Pullen and Babi Music (IPS, 1976) with ...

News: Obituary

Bruce Lundvall, Longtime Blue Note President, Dies At 79

May 20, 2015

It's with great sadness that we announce the passing of beloved music man & longtime President of Blue Note Records, Bruce Lundvall. He was 79 years old. The cause was complications from a prolonged battle with Parkinson’s disease. Born in Englewood, New Jersey in 1935, Bruce was a lifelong jazz lover whose passion for the music ...

News: Recording

Kip Hanrahan And American Clave Launch Crowdsourcing Campaign To Record Album Due In October 2015

May 11, 2015

An Icon for the Iconoclasts, legendary producer KIP HANRAHAN is planning a new release for October 2015 on his label, american clavé, which released its first album in 1980. Like the rest of his label american clavé’s catalogue, this record will be, as The Independent (London), has said “...rich beyond compare.” Hanrahan’s music has been described ...

Article: Album Review

Don Pullen: Richard's Tune

Read "Richard's Tune" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
January 5, 2015

Idiosyncratic pianist Don Pullen's debut as a leader, Richard's Tune (Sackville, 1974) already bore marks of his unique style and singular improvisational approach. Delmark reissued this superb solo outing in 2014 augmenting it with previously unreleased material from the same session making it all the more satisfying.Pullen peppers “KaDiJi," one of the bonus works ...

Album

Richard's Tune

By Don Pullen

Label: Sackville
Released: 2014
Track listing: Richard's Tune; Suite (Sweet) Malcolm (Part 1: Memories and Gunshots); Big Alice; Song Played Backwards; KaDJi; Big Alice (Alternate take).