Change a Pace

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Change a Pace
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Studio album by Duke Jordan Trio
Released 1980
Recorded October 29, 1979 in Copenhagen, Denmark
Genre Jazz
Length51:16CD with bonus tracks
Label SteepleChase SCS 1135
Producer Nils Winther
Duke Jordan chronology
Thinking of You
(1979)		Change a Pace
(1980)		 Art Pepper with Duke Jordan in Copenhagen 1981
(1981)

Change a Pace is an album led by pianist Duke Jordan recorded in 1979 in Denmark and released on the Danish SteepleChase label in 1980. [1] [2]

Duke Jordan American musician

Irving Sidney "Duke" Jordan was an American jazz pianist.

SteepleChase Records is a jazz record company and label based in Copenhagen, Denmark. SteepleChase was founded in 1972 by Nils Winther, who was a student at Copenhagen University at the time. He began recording performances at Jazzhus Montmartre, where many American expatriates played, and was given permission by some of the artists to release the material on record.

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AllMusic awarded the album 2½ stars with a review by Ken Dryden stating "While none of Duke Jordan's compositions on this date ever became as well known as his "Jordu," "Flight to Jordan," or "No Problem," this session is warmly recommended". [3]

AllMusic online music database

AllMusic is an online music database. It catalogs more than 3 million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musical artists and bands. It launched in 1991, predating the World Wide Web.

Track listing

All compositions by Duke Jordan.

  1. "Change a Pace" - 5:46
  2. "I Thought You'd Call Today" - 5:42
  3. "Double Scotch" - 7:06
  4. "Miss Kissed" - 5:24
  5. "Diamond Stud" - 5:46
  6. "It's Hard to Know" - 7:18
  7. "Anything Can Happen" - 6:45 Bonus track on CD reissue
  8. "Deacon's Blues" - 4:57 Bonus track on CD reissue
  9. "My Queen Is Home to Stay" - 2:47 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

Double bass Acoustic stringed instrument of the violin family

The double bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

Billy Hart American jazz drummer

Billy Hart is an American jazz drummer and educator.

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References

  1. ↑ Duke Jordan discography, accessed March 24, 2015
  2. ↑ SteepleChase Records discography, accessed March 24, 2015
  3. 1 2 Dryden, Ken. Change a Pace – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved March 24, 2015.
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