Solo Piano Album
1975 studio album by Don Pullen
Solo Piano Album | ||||
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Studio album by Don Pullen | ||||
Released | 1975 | |||
Recorded | February 24, 1975 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 43:24 | |||
Label | Sackville | |||
Producer | Bill Airey Smith | |||
Don Pullen chronology | ||||
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Solo Piano Album is an album by American jazz pianist Don Pullen recorded in 1975 for the Canadian Sackville label.[1] In 2014 Delmark Records, which purchased the catalog of the Sackville label, reissued the album under the title Richard's Tune with two bonus tracks.
Reception
The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow 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".[2]
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz | [3] |
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
- ^ Don Pullen discography accessed May 16, 2011
- ^ a b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed May 16, 2011
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1185. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
- Solo Piano Album (1975)
- Jazz a Confronto 21 (1975)
- Five to Go (1975)
- Capricorn Rising (1975)
- Healing Force (1976)
- Tomorrow's Promises (1976 & 1977)
- Warriors (with Chico Freeman, Fred Hopkins, and Bobby Battle, 1978)
- Milano Strut (1978)
- The Magic Triangle (with Joseph Jarman and Don Moye, 1979)
- Earth Beams (with George Adams, 1980)
- Life Line (with George Adams, 1981)
- Melodic Excursions (with George Adams, 1982)
- City Gates (with George Adams, 1983)
- Evidence of Things Unseen (1983)
- Decisions (with George Adams, 1984)
- The Sixth Sense (1985)
- Breakthrough (with George Adams, 1986)
- Song Everlasting (with George Adams, 1987)
- New Beginnings (1988)
- Random Thoughts (1990)
- Kele Mou Bana (1990)
- Ode to Life (1993)
- Sacred Common Ground (1995)
- The Complete Yale Concert, 1966 (with Milford Graves, 1966)
- Montreux Concert (1977)
- All That Funk (with George Adams, 1979)
- More Funk (with George Adams, 1979)
- Don't Lose Control (with George Adams, 1979)
- Live at the Village Vanguard (with George Adams, 1983)
- Live at the Village Vanguard Vol. 2 (with George Adams, 1983)
- Live at Montmartre (with George Adams, 1985)
- Live...Again: Live at Montreux (1993)