''Deez to Blues'' is an album by bassist/composer

Mario Pavone Mario Pavone (November 11, 1940 – May 15, 2021) was an American jazz bassist, composer and bandleader. Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead offers that Pavone was not only "great bass player ut also abig-hearted mensch." Early life Pavone was born i ...

recorded in 2005 and released on the Playscape label.

Reception

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called it an "excellent, forward-thinking date ... Mixing orchestral flourishes with a post-bop vocabulary and a decidedly experimental sensibility, Pavone's music is both highbrow and visceral at once". '' The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' selected this album as part of its suggested Core Collection. On '' All About Jazz'' Troy Collins observed, "Pavone's swinging, multi-layered compositions push the tradition forward while always looking back" and said "''Deez to Blues'' is a high water mark in a consistently exceptional discography".Collins, T.
All About Jazz Review
March 14, 2006 JazzTimes reviewer Brent Burton commented " Though never noisy or atonal, ''Blues'' is impossible to tune out, impossible to turn down. It demands nothing less than your undivided attention".Burton, B.
JazzTimes Review
June 2006

Track listing

All compositions by Mario Pavone except where noted. # "Zines" – 7:44 # "Deez" – 7:18 # "Xapo" – 9:41 # "Dances 3/5" – 7:20 # "Day of the Dark Bright Light" (

Marty Ehrlich Marty Ehrlich (born May 31, 1955) is a multi-instrumentalist (saxophones, clarinets, flutes) and is considered one of the leading figures in avant-garde jazz. Biography Though born in St. Paul, Minnesota, the portion of Ehrlich's youth spent in ...

) – 5:17 # "Ocbo" – 5:12 # "Second-Term Blues" – 7:12

Personnel

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* Howard Johnson – tuba,

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References

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