Wahoo!

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Wahoo!
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Studio album by
Released1965
RecordedNovember 21, 1964
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length43:04
Label Blue Note
BST 84191
Producer Alfred Lion
Duke Pearson chronology
Hush!
(1962)
Wahoo!
(1965)
Honeybuns
(1965)
Alternative cover
Wahoo (Duke Pearson album - cover art).jpg

Wahoo! is an album by American pianist and arranger Duke Pearson, featuring performances recorded in 1964 and released on the Blue Note label in 1964. [1]

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Reception

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The AllMusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine calls the album "A truly wonderful advanced hard bop date, Wahoo captures pianist Duke Pearson at his most adventurous and creative... one of the finest sophisticated hard bop dates Blue Note released in the mid-'60s". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Duke Pearson, except where noted.

  1. "Amanda" – 9:26
  2. "Bedouin" – 9:30
  3. "Farewell Machelle" – 2:48
  4. "Wahoo" – 7:19
  5. "ESP (Extrasensory Perception)" – 7:50
  6. "Fly Little Bird Fly" (Donald Byrd) – 6:11

Personnel

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References

  1. Duke Pearson discography accessed March 17, 2017
  2. 1 2 Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Wahoo! at AllMusic . Retrieved September 7, 2010.