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Sharpeville
By Mario Pavone
Label: Playscape Recordings
Released: 2001
Track listing: Bi Cycle; Bass Ballad; Three M; Double; Two Flutes; Sharpeville; Chimera; Aku; Ark Two; 4 Up, 1 Down.
Mario Pavone: Sharpeville
by AAJ Staff
Unusual among bass players, Mario Pavone has an extremely well-developed sense of melody as well as harmony and rhythm. He exercises this musical fluency at the levels of both composition and improvisation on Sharpeville. Recorded fifteen years ago during the dark days of apartheid, this disc makes explicit reference to the particularly outrageous events that occurred ...
Mario Pavone: Sharpeville
by AAJ Staff
It’s great to have this disc back again; even better for me who never did get the original Alacra LP recorded in 1985 and released in 1988. Pavone creates a magical soundworld through what for some other artists might be called chamber jazz, but Pavone makes his own “school” here, as it is neither ethereal nor ...
Mario Pavone: Sharpeville
by Mark Corroto
This reissue of bassist Mario Pavone’s self-produced 1985 session is an opportunity to hear creative music just as it was breaking into what we now call the ‘Downtown’ scene. Both Thomas Chapin and Marty Ehrlich were in their early thirties and had yet to make a name for themselves as leaders. As it appears that the ...
