Long Goodbye: A Tribute to Don Pullen

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Long Goodbye: A Tribute to Don Pullen
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Released1998
RecordedSeptember 30 – October 1, 1996
Genre Jazz
Length55:36
Label DIW
Producer Kazunori Sugiyama
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Long Goodbye: A Tribute to Don Pullen is an album by David Murray, released on the Japanese DIW label. [2] [3] Recorded in 1996 and released in 1998, the album contains performances by Murray, D.D. Jackson, Santi Debriano, and J. T. Lewis, in tribute to Don Pullen. The liner notes were penned by Jackson. [4]

Contents

Critical reception

The Village Voice wrote that "despite some rousing passages, this is becalming and elegiac, a fitting companion to Pullen’s own Ode to Life." [5]

Track listing

All compositions by Don Pullen except where noted.

  1. "Gratitude" – 7:52
  2. "Resting on the Road" – 10:29
  3. "Out of a Storm" (Jackson) – 8:38
  4. "El Matador" – 4:32
  5. "Easy Alice" (Jackson) – 8:10
  6. "Long Goodbye" (Morris) – 8:00
  7. "Common Ground" – 7:54

Personnel

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References

  1. AllMusic Review accessed August 10, 2011
  2. "David Murray Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic.
  3. Giddins, Gary (October 14, 2004). "Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century". Oxford University Press via Google Books.
  4. Jenkins, Todd S. (October 14, 2004). "Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia". Greenwood Publishing Group via Google Books.
  5. "The David Murray Guide". The Village Voice. May 30, 2006.