Triplicity (Mickey Tucker album)

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Triplicity
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Studio album by
Released1976
RecordedDecember 22, 1975
RCA Studios, New York City
Genre Jazz
Label Xanadu
128
Producer Don Schlitten
Mickey Tucker chronology
The New Heritage Keyboard Quartet
(1973)
Triplicity
(1976)
Doublet
(1976)

Triplicity is an album by pianist Mickey Tucker which was recorded in 1975 and released on the Xanadu label. [1] [2]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The Allmusic review awarded the album 3 stars. [3] Down Beat stated "Tucker's dazzling harmonic sensibility is impressively united with an idiomatic eclecticism embracing everything from ragtime to Cecil Taylorish flurries". [4]

Track listing

All compositions by Mickey Tucker except as indicated

  1. "Happy" - 4:54
  2. "Blues for Khalid Yasin" - 4:48
  3. "Malapaga" - 8:34
  4. "Strange Blues" - 5:32
  5. "Giant Steps" (John Coltrane) - 5:36
  6. "Suite for Eddie: The Man from Gladden" - 5:48
  7. "Suite for Eddie: Something for a Quiet Man" - 7:35
  8. "Suite for Eddie: Boyd Street Bop" - 4:17

Personnel

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References

  1. Payne, D., Jimmy Ponder discography accessed May 2, 2014
  2. Xanadu Records discography accessed May 2, 2014
  3. 1 2 Allmusic listing, accessed May 2, 2014
  4. All About Jazz musician entry, accessed May 2, 2014