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Solo Piano Album
''Solo Piano Album'' is an album by American jazz pianist Don Pullen recorded in 1975 for the Canadian Sackville label. Biography Yanow was born in New York City and grew up near Los Angeles. Since 1974, he was a regular reviewer of many jazz styles an ... awarded the album 3 stars stating "Don Pullen's debut as a leader around a decade after he first appeared on the ESP label as a sideman finds the percussive and adventurous pianist already displaying a fairly distinctive style".Yanow, SAllmusic Reviewaccessed May 16, 2011 Track listing :''All compositions by Don Pullen'' # "Richard's Tune" - 8:25 # "Suite (Sweet) Malcom (Part 1: Memories and Gunshots)" - 15:39 # "Big Alice" - 10:07 # "Song Played Backwards" - 9:13 :*Recorded at Thunder Sound in Toronto, Canada on February 24, 1975 ''Richard's Tune'' bonus tracks (Delmark CD reissue) # "Kadji" - 8:29 # "Big Alice (alternate)" - 9:18 Personnel * Don Pullen - piano References {{Authority control Solo piano jazz a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Pullen
Don Gabriel Pullen (December 25, 1941 – April 22, 1995) was an American jazz pianist and organist. Pullen developed a strikingly individual style throughout his career. He composed pieces ranging from blues to bebop and modern jazz. The great variety of his body of work makes it difficult to pigeonhole his musical style. Biography Early life Pullen was and raised in Roanoke, Virginia, United States. Growing up in a musical family, he learned the piano at an early age. A graduate of Lucy Addison High School, Pullen played in the school's band. He played with the choir in his local church and was heavily influenced by his cousin, Clyde "Fats" Wright, who was a professional jazz pianist. He took some lessons in classical piano and knew little of jazz. At this time, he was mainly aware of church music and the blues.Interview with Vernon Frazer, ''Coda'', October, 1976 (Canada); Free Blues, ''Jazz Hot'' 331, October 1976 (France); Piano Inside And Out, ''Down Beat'', June 1985 (US ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. But jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz (a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sackville Records
Sackville Records was a Canadian record company and label that specialized in jazz.Gardner/Kernfeld, "Sackville". '' Grove Jazz'' online. In 2011, with Sackville defunct, Delmark Records acquired its catalogue. Sackville was founded in 1968 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada by John Norris and Bill Smith of the jazz magazine ''CODA''. The bulk of the label's new releases were from sessions recorded in Canada. It has also done reissues. In the 1990s it became the distributor for American Music, Chiaroscuro, Nagel-Heyer, Classics, Storyville, and Timeless. Its catalogue included Doc Cheatham, Don Ewell, Art Hodes, Keith Ingham, Geoffrey Keezer, Humphrey Lyttelton, Harold Mabern, Junior Mance, Jay McShann, Don Menza, Sammy Price, Don Pullen, Frank Rosolino, Archie Shepp, Ralph Sutton, and Buddy Tate. Roster *Ian Bargh *Ed Bickert *Ruby Braff *Anthony Braxton *Doc Cheatham *Don Ewell * Jim Galloway *Sonny Greenwich *Herb Hall *Milt Hinton *Art Hodes * Steve Holt *Keith Ingham * JMO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Complete Yale Concert, 1966
''The Complete Yale Concert, 1966'' is a live album by drummer Milford Graves and pianist Don Pullen. It was recorded in April 1966 at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and was released in 2020 by Corbett vs. Dempsey. The music was initially issued on two LPs: ''In Concert at Yale University'' (1966) and ''Nommo (In Concert at Yale University Vol. 2)'' (1967), both released by the musicians on their SRP label. Background The Yale concert came about when Graves was asked to present a solo recital, and invited Pullen to join him. The event was a success, and the musicians decided to invest the proceeds from the concert in the production of an LP, titled ''In Concert at Yale University''. Together, they formed SRP (variously referred to as Self-Reliance Program, Self-Reliance Project, or Self-Reliance Productions) Records for the purpose of releasing the music, and had a thousand LPs printed, selling them in person and via mail order with hand-painted covers. Following the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
