Don Pullen developed an extended technique for the piano and a strikingly individual style, post-bop and modern, but retaining a strong feeling for the blues. He produced acknowledged masterworks of ...

Pullen aims arrows at souls on earth from an ancient place...from the present...the voice of the jazz-mother-tongue singing from the future... He is being carried on wings, a Black Icarus, further up, ...

CD1: 1. Mr. Smoothie (A) (6:04); 2. Just Foolin' Around (A) (6:19); 3. Song From The Old Country (A) (8:11); 4. We've Been Here All The Time (A) (9:09); 5. A Time For Sobriety (A) (9:42); 6. The ...

All About Jazz is celebrating Don Pullen's birthday today! Don Pullen developed an extended technique for the piano and a strikingly individual style, post-bop and modern, but retaining a strong ...

Idiosyncratic pianist Don Pullen's debut as a leader, Richard's Tune (Sackville, 1974) already bore marks of his unique style and singular improvisational approach. Delmark reissued this superb solo ...

The brilliant pianist played church music and R&B before joining Charles Mingus' band and forming his own quartet. He joins Marian McPartland for... Don Pullen On Piano Jazz Pianist Don Pullen ...

Don Pullen, with his heart firmly rooted in gospel, bop and blues, and with his hands grasping on to free-form dissonance, was one of the very last truly original jazz pianists. He found a musical ...

The late jazz pianist Don Pullen played with Charles Mingus, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, John Scofield, Billy Hart, Maceo Parker and more. He was a composer of note and a bandleader. Among his ...

This 2-CD set takes the 1974 album Mingus At Carnegie Hall (Atlantic) and adds seventy minutes of previously unissued material recorded at the same concert. It is as worthwhile an addition to Charles ...

***** Don Pullen, Sacred Common Ground (Blue Note): Pianist-composer Don Pullen’s last album also is his most adventurous. Recorded only six weeks before he died in April 1995 at age 53, Sacred Common ...

CD1: 1. Mr. Smoothie (A) (6:04); 2. Just Foolin' Around (A) (6:19); 3. Song From The Old Country (A) (8:11); 4. We've Been Here All The Time (A) (9:09); 5. A Time For Sobriety (A) (9:42); 6. The ...

The musical tumult of the ’60s inspired a handful of pianists to go at their keyboards with a physicality that suggested action painting or dance. McCoy Tyner and, later, Alice Coltrane fashioned ...