''Pumpkin's Delight'' is a live album by the group

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featuring saxophonist

Charlie Rouse Charlie Rouse (April 6, 1924 – November 30, 1988) was an American hard bop tenor saxophonist and flautist. His career is marked by his collaboration with Thelonious Monk, which lasted for more than ten years. Biography Rouse was born in Was ...

, pianist

Kenny Barron Kenny Barron (born June 9, 1943) is an American jazz pianist, who has appeared on hundreds of recordings as leader and sideman and is considered one of the most influential mainstream jazz pianists since the bebop era. Biography Born in Philadel ...

, bassist

Buster Williams Charles Anthony "Buster" Williams (born April 17, 1942) is an American jazz bassist. Williams is known for his membership in pianist Herbie Hancock's early 1970s group, working with guitarist Larry Coryell from the 1980s to present, working in the ...

, and drummer

Ben Riley Benjamin Alexander Riley Jr. (July 17, 1933 – November 18, 2017) was an American jazz drummer known for his work with Thelonious Monk, as well as Alice Coltrane, Stan Getz, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Ahmad Jamal, and as a member of the group Sphe ...

, recorded at the

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in Perugia, Italy, as part of the 1986

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and released on the Italian

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label. The 1993 CD edition features four tracks first released on LP in 1987 as ''Live at Umbria Jazz''.Rate Your Music: album entry
accessed February 2, 2017.

Reception

In his review on

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, Ron Wynn noted: "This 1986 concert by the quartet Sphere is one of the short-lived group's high points ... Recommended."

Track listing

# "Pumpkin's Delight" (Charlie Rouse) – 12:05 # "Toku Do" (Buster Williams) – 11:00 # "Saud's Song" (Kenny Barron) – 10:40 # "Christina" (Williams) – 9:10 # "Deceptakon" (Williams) – 11:40

Personnel

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piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a musica ...

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References

{{Kenny Barron Sphere (American band) live albums 1993 live albums Red Records live albums