BILLY HART "ENCHANCE"
Billy Hart, drums
Oliver Lake, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone (7), flute (5)
Dewey Redman, tenor saxophone (not on 5)
Hannibal Marvin Peterson, trumpet, koto (5)
Eddie Henderson,trumpet (1-5,7), fluegelhorn (1,2), echoplex (5)
Don Pullen, piano, electric piano (5)
Buster Williams, acoustic bass (1,3,5)
Dave Holland, acoustic bass (2,4,6,7)
Thabo Michael Carvin, percussion (3,5)
1. Diff Customs (Lake) 05:53
2. Shadow Dance (Holland) 07:52
3. Layla-Joy (Hart) 07:04
4. Corner Culture (Redman) 02:52
5. Rahsaan Is Beautiful (Peterson) 04:38
6. Pharoah (Pullen) 09:44
7. Hymn For The Old Year (Lake) 08:56
Recorded February 24 and March 3, 1977, Generation Sound Studio, New York City.
HORIZON 24
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A brief recording made during the 1976 edition of
"Umbria Jazz", the day after Don played with Sam
Rivers in Villalago (Black Africa! Villalago - Horo Records).
Rec. live at "Umbria Jazz '76", Castiglione del Lago (Perugia),
Italy, on July 23, 1976 (radio broadcast)
Don Pullen,piano
1. Richard's Tune (10:04)
2. Joycie Girl (09:36)
3. Suite (Sweet) Malcom (09:18)
4. Big Alice (08:50)
Total Time 37:49
All compositions by D.Pullen
Source: TV recorded to VHS/PC and digital conversion into PAL format.
Quality: A-
George Adams: ts, fl & voc*
Don Pullen: p
Cameron Brown: b
Dannie Richmond: d
1 City gates 13:52
2 Forever lovers 12:59
3 Devil's Blues * 9:47
4 Sing me a song everlasting 8:34
Time 45:00
Someone will notice that this recording was taped
the same day of that i've posted on June 29
(Don Pullen/Joseph Jarman/Don Moyè - Live in
Frascati '78) : indeed the Frascati was a morning
concert (about 10 a.m.), so here we have the curiosity
of the same tune (a favourite of mine, for evident reasons)
played twice in a day by the same player,after a 600
kilometres journey.
Rec. live at "Teatro Ciak", Milan, Italy, on December
18th, 1978 (mics recording)
Don Pullen,piano
1. Richard's Tune (36:33)
Another trio (piano/reeds/percussions), this time
all American, another idea of improvised music :
personally i prefer the European approach
Rec. live at "Teatro Politeama", Frascati, Italy,
on december 18th, 1978 (mix recording)
Don Pullen,piano
Joseph Jarman,reeds,flutes,percussions
Don Moyè,percussions
1. Richard's Tune (47:51)
2. Unknown (17:32)
Total Time 1:05:24
vinyl rip, 320 mp3, Paddewheel
Number 4 from I Forgot Clifford. I think this one scored mostly on rarity and I would not have predicted top 10. There is a curiosity factor here to see how DP would interpret some of Monk's most loved tunes. Pullen has a very solid following based on many strong discs with Mingus, Adams/Pullen 4tet and other solo discs. He is a great example of one of the defining ideals for a musician, you know it is him playing almost immediately.
Don Pullen - solo piano
1. Well You Needn't (Monk) 5:18
2. Round Midnight (Monk) 8:09
3. Monkin' Around (Pullen) 9:41
4. Trinkle Tinkle (Monk) 6:13
5. Gratitude (Pullen) 5:39
6. In Walked Bud (Monk) 5:51
NYC 1984
http://rapidshare.com/files/205056797/pmonk.rar
Happy New Year to one and all !
Pullen was an artist who must have slipped under my radar until quite recently. I'd heard him on one or two Mingus records, but not on anything else. He started out as an avant gardist in the 60s, playing with the likes of Guisseppi Logan and Milford Graves, but must have cleaned up his act to occupy the piano spot in the Charles Mingus band for much of the 70s. On Mingus's death, he formed a great quartet with fellow Mingus sidesmen, reedsman George Adams and drumme Dannie Richmond, along with bassist Cameron Brown (formerly with Archie Shepp). This quartet endured for much of the 80s and produced some fine recordings.
This concert, an FM recording (thanks go to blackforest for seeding) predates the formation of the Adams quartet, and is the same line-up that produced the album Warriors in 1978.
Details:
Don Pullen Quartet
Grenoble (France)
Maison de la Culture - Grande Salle
19780322 - March 03, 1978
Don Pullen p
Chico Freeman ts, ss, fl
Fred Hopkins b
Bobby Battle dr
1) 31:36 Richard´s Tune (Don Pullen)
2) 27:52 Joycie Girl (Don Pullen)....
3) 24:20 …u.t.
Much criticism has been levelled at Pullen, suggesting he was a poor man's Cecil Taylor. Well he can pound the ivories as well as the next man, as passages of this recording show, but I think he is much more than that.
Freeman is superb on this. He doesn't appear until about two-thirds the way through the first track (perhaps he was held up in the traffic). He plays freer than on anything else I've heard by him.
If anyone is interested in a solo Don Pullen recording, "Five To Go" is still available on fredito's now defunkt blog at
http://huppeshyalites.blogspot.com/2007/05/don-pullen-five-to-go.html. Quite rare I think, and well worth a listen.