Multidirection

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Multidirection
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Studio album by Kenny Cox
Released 1969
Recorded November 26, 1969
Genre Jazz
Length38:05
Label Blue Note
Producer Francis Wolff
Kenny Cox chronology
Introducing Kenny Cox
(1968)		Multidirection
(1969)

Multidirection is the second album by American jazz pianist Kenny Cox featuring performances recorded in 1969 and released on the Blue Note label. [1] The album was reissued as bonus tracks with Cox's first Blue Note album Introducing Kenny Cox.

Kenny Cox was a jazz pianist performing in the post bop, hard bop and bebop mediums. Cox was pianist for singer Etta Jones during the 1960s and was also a member of a quintet led by trombonist George Bohannon. By the end of the late 1960s he had formed his own Kenny Cox and the Contemporary Jazz Quintet, which recorded two albums for Blue Note Records before the end of the decade. Cox has appeared as a contributor on various albums, and has also performed live with such musicians as Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Eddie Harris, Jackie McLean, Roy Haynes, Ben Webster, Wes Montgomery, Kenny Dorham, Philly Joe Jones, Kenny Burrell, Donald Byrd, Roy Brooks, Charles McPherson, and Curtis Fuller. During the 1980s he formed the Detroit-based Guerilla Jam Band, a group which performed with Regina Carter, James Carter, Tani Tabbal, and Craig Taborn. Cox was responsible for the short-lived Strata Records.

Blue Note Records American record label

Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label that is owned by Universal Music Group and operated with Decca Records. Established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis, it derives its name from the blue notes of jazz and the blues. Originally dedicated to recording traditional jazz and small group swing, from 1947 the label began to switch its attention to modern jazz. Although the original company did not record many of the pioneers of bebop, significant exceptions are Thelonious Monk, Fats Navarro and Bud Powell.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Brandon Burke awarded the album 4 stars stating "Multidirection has as much in common with Blue Note's mildly avant-garde releases of the early '60s as it does the soul-based output typical of 1969. In this sense, one could compare it to Andrew Hill's Grass Roots or Jackie McLean's Jacknife , as soulful yet mildly dissonant hard bop is the order of the day here as well". [2]

Andrew Hill (jazz musician) American jazz pianist and composer

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Track listing

All compositions by Kenny Cox except as indicated
  1. "Spellbound" - 5:23
  2. "Snuck In" (Charles Moore) - 6:03
  3. "Sojourn" - 6:36
  4. "Multidirection" (Moore) - 9:57
  5. "What Other One" - 4:58
  6. "Gravity Point" (Moore) - 5:08
  • Recorded at G.M. Recording Studios, Detroit, Michigan on November 26, 1969

Personnel

Piano musical instrument

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Trumpet musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group contains the instruments with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpet-like instruments have historically been used as signaling devices in battle or hunting, with examples dating back to at least 1500 BC; they began to be used as musical instruments only in the late 14th or early 15th century. Trumpets are used in art music styles, for instance in orchestras, concert bands, and jazz ensembles, as well as in popular music. They are played by blowing air through nearly-closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound that starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the instrument. Since the late 15th century they have primarily been constructed of brass tubing, usually bent twice into a rounded rectangular shape.

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References

  1. ↑ Blue Note Records discography accessed December 6, 2010
  2. 1 2 Burke B. Allmusic Review accessed December 6, 2010
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