''The Hearinga Suite'' is an album by
Muhal Richard Abrams released on the Italian
Black Saint label in 1989 and features performances of seven of Abrams compositions by an eighteen-member orchestra. Abrams dedicated the music on the album to
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and
Donald Raphael Garrett.
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review by
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awarded the album 4½ stars stating "Pianist Muhal Richard Abrams leads an 18-piece orchestra on his seven originals that make up the ''Hearinga Suite''. Much of the music is quite adventurous, although "Oldfotalk" is fairly conventional. Although the personnel includes such fine players as trumpeters Jack Walrath and Cecil Bridgewater and saxophonists John Purcell and Marty Ehrlich, the emphasis is on group interplay and the colorful arrangements. Throughout this very interesting set, Abrams shows how a big band can logically be utilized in freer forms of jazz. ".
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accessed July 11, 2011 The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 3½ stars stating "This marks something of a quantum shift, a move towards something larger and more cohesive. The spirit of
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Track listing
''All compositions by Muhal Richard Abrams''
# "Hearinga" - 5:11
# "Conversations With the Three of Me" - 5:45
# "Seesall" - 5:28
# "Aura of Thought- Things" - 4:36
# "Oldfotalk" - 6:43
# "Finditnow" - 6:27
# "Bermix" - 6:55
*Recorded January 17 & 18, 1989 at A & R Recording Studios, New York City
Personnel
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- trumpet
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Jack Walrath - trumpet
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Cecil Bridgewater - trumpet
*Frank Gordon - trumpet
*
Clifton Anderson
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Anderson was born in New York City on October 5, 1957. "His mother was a singer and his father was an organist." When he was seven, Anderson's uncle, saxop ...
- trombone
*
Dick Griffin - trombone
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Jack Jeffers - bass trombone
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- bass trombone
*
John Purcell - flute, clarinet, tenor saxophone
*
Marty Ehrlich
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Though born in St. Paul, Minnesota, the portion of Ehrlich's youth spent in ...
- piccolo, flute, clarinet, alto saxophone
*
Patience Higgins
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- bass clarinet, tenor saxophone
*
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- bassoon, bass clarinet, tenor saxophone
*
Charles Davis - baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone
*
Diedre Murray
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- cello
*
Fred Hopkins - bass
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Warren Smith - glockenspiel, vibes, percussion
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Andrew Cyrille - drums
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Muhal Richard Abrams - piano, synthesizer, conductor
References
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1989 albums
Muhal Richard Abrams albums
Black Saint/Soul Note albums