Meditation (George Coleman and Tete Montoliu album)

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Meditation
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Studio album by George Coleman - Tete Montoliu Duo
Released 1977
Recorded February, 22, 1977 at Dureco Studio in Weesp, Holland
Genre Jazz
Label Timeless
SJP 110
Producer Wim Wigt
George Coleman chronology
Meditation
(1977)		 Amsterdam After Dark
(1978) Amsterdam After Dark 1978
Tete Montoliu chronology
Blues for Myself
(1977) Blues for Myself1977		Meditation
(1977) Meditation1977		 Yellow Dolphin Street
(1977) Yellow Dolphin Street1977

Meditation (also released as Dynamic Duo) is an album of duets by the American saxophonist George Coleman and Spanish pianist Tete Montoliu recorded in early 1977 and released on the Dutch label, Timeless. [1] [2] [3]

George Coleman American musician

George Edward Coleman is an American jazz saxophonist known for his work with Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock in the 1960s. In 2015, he was named an NEA Jazz Master.

Tete Montoliu Spanish jazz musician and pianist (1933-1997)

Vicente Montolíu Massana, better known as Tete Montoliu was a jazz pianist from Catalonia, Spain. Born blind, he learnt Braille music at age seven. His styles varied from hard bop, through afro-cuban, world fusion, to post bop. He recorded with Lionel Hampton in 1956 and played with saxophonist Roland Kirk in 1963. He also worked with leading American jazz musicians who toured in, or relocated to Europe including Kenny Dorham, Dexter Gordon, Ben Webster, Lucky Thompson, and Anthony Braxton. Tete Montoliu recorded two albums in the US, and recorded for Enja and Soul Note in Europe.

Timeless Records is a jazz record label based in The Netherlands.

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Steve Loewy of AllMusic states, "A pairing of tenor saxophonist George Coleman and pianist Tete Montoliu might at first seem odd, but this is a remarkably coherent album in nearly every respect. Coleman and Montoliu are each at the top of their form (coming straight from a European tour), the saxophonist blowing strings of notes like soap bubbles from a pipe and Montoliu singing his Tatum-esque lines". [4]

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Track listing

All compositions by George Coleman except as indicated

  1. "Lisa" (Tete Montoliu) - 5:28
  2. "Dynamic Duo" - 4:03
  3. "First Time Down" - 5:01
  4. "Waltzing at Rosa's Place" - 6:38
  5. "Meditation" (Antônio Carlos Jobim, Newton Mendonça) - 11:55
  6. "Sophisticated Lady" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Mitchell Parish) - 5:50


Personnel

Tenor saxophone type of saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B♭ (while the Alto is pitched in the key of E♭), and written as a transposing instrument in the treble clef, sounding an octave and a major second lower than the written pitch. Modern tenor saxophones which have a high F♯ key have a range from A♭2 to E5 (concert) and are therefore pitched one octave below the soprano saxophone. People who play the tenor saxophone are known as "tenor saxophonists", "tenor sax players", or "saxophonists".

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.

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References

  1. ↑ George Coleman discography accessed March 10, 2015
  2. ↑ Timeless Records SJP series discography, accessed March 10, 2015
  3. ↑ ete Montoliu discography, accessed March 10, 2015
  4. 1 2 Loewy, Steve. George Coleman - Tete Montoliu: Dynamic Duo – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved March 10, 2015.
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