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Dedications |
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1. |
Homage |
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2. |
San Michele |
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3. |
Mr. Softee |
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4. |
The Emergence |
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5. |
Ellingtonia |
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6. |
Taiowa |
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7. |
Dedicated to
You |
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8. |
Sha 'la ko' |
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9. |
Grace |
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Alan Pasqua
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piano
Dave Holland - bass
Paul Motian - drums
Gary Bartz -
alto sax (on 1, 5, 8)
Michael Brecker - soprano & tenor sax (on 2, 4)
Randy Brecker - trumpet (on 1, 4, 5, 8) |
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Pianist Alan Pasqua has dedicated his
second Postcards CD to the incredibly rich tradition of jazz. On
Dedications, his compositions cover the whole stylistic spectrum from
swing and bebop through today's polytonality and modality, and are heard
in trio, quartet, and quintet settings. Building from a core trio
featuring Dave Holland and Paul Motian (who have rarely recorded together)
on four tunes, Pasqua adds Michael Brecker (on seldom-heard soprano
saxophone) on one tune, and then creates two different quintets, one with
both Michael and Randy Brecker, and one with Randy Brecker and Gary Bartz.
From the lush, ducal "Ellingtonia" through the ethereal modality of "San
Michele," Alan Pasqua accomplishes the challenging task of leaving his
unique and masterful imprint on this homage to the giants of the
tradition. |
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Milagro |
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1. |
Acoma |
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2. |
Rio Grande |
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3. |
A Sleeping
Child |
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4. |
The Law of
Diminishing Returns |
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5. |
Twilight |
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6. |
All of You |
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7. |
Milagro |
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8. |
L'Inverno |
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9. |
Heartland |
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10. |
I'll Take You
Home Again, Kathleen
(for my
Kathleen) |
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Alan Pasqua
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piano
Jack DeJohnette - drums
Dave Holland - bass
Michael Brecker - tenor saxophone (on 2, 4,
8)
John Clark - French horn (on 5, 7)
Willie Olenick
- trumpet
and fluegelhorn (on 2, 5, 9)
Roger Rosenberg - alto flute (on 2, 5, 7, 9)
Jack
Schatz - trombone
and bass trombone (on 2, 5, 9)
Dave Tofani - bass clarinet (on 2, 7) |
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Milagro is pianist Alan
Pasqua's first album as a leader. The musical promise he displayed in The
Tony Williams Lifetime, Santana, and George Russell's Living Time
Orchestra has been fully realized on this inventive disc, aided and
abetted by cohorts Holland, DeJohnette, and Brecker, and by five of New
York's first-call brass and woodwind session players. Pasqua's playing is
both melodic and hard-driving and, on this album, his gifts as an arranger
are abundantly featured to great effect. |