Ebu (album)

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Ebu
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Studio album by
Released1984
RecordedFebruary 1, 2 and 13, 1984
Classic Sound Studio, New York
Genre Jazz
Length44:04
Label Soul Note
SN 1088
Producer Giovanni Bonandrini
Hamiet Bluiett chronology
Dangerously Suite
(1981)
Ebu
(1984)
The Clarinet Family
(1984)

Ebu is an album by American jazz saxophonist Hamiet Bluiett recorded in 1984 and released on the Italian Soul Note label. [1]

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Reception

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In his review for AllMusic, Chris Kelsey states "Though Ebu has a taste of the arcane, it is mostly a collection of relatively straightahead Bluiett-penned blowing vehicles done with fire and invention. Bluiett has the biggest sound in town; his phrasing and articulation is a little heavy, as one would expect, but he plays with a strength and conviction that's rarely equalled by other baritonists... This music has a manifest unruliness, a spirit of adventure; it leaps outrageously into the unknown and usually lands square on its feet." [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Hamiet Bluiett except as indicated
  1. "Ebu" – 8:30
  2. "New Bones" – 9:05
  3. "Nu Tune" – 3:30
  4. "Gumbo (Vegetarian Style)" – 8:02
  5. "Things Will Never Be the Same" – 7:40
  6. "A Night in Tunisia" (Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli) – 7:17

Personnel

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References

  1. Frohne, M., Soul Note discography accessed November 18, 2014
  2. 1 2 Kelsey, Chris. Hamiet Bluiett – Ebu: Review at AllMusic . Retrieved November 18, 2014.
  3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 145. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.