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| 1. | The Great Escape, or Run John Henry Run
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| 2. | Seriously Speaking
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| 3. | Soft Seas
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| 4. | Nature's Children
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| 5. | Protection
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| 6. | Newcomer; Seven Years Later
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Jazz / Post-Bop, Free Jazz
George Adams - tenor saxophone, flute, vocals
Don Pullen - piano
Cameron Brown - bass
Dannie Richmond - drums
Jan Kranendonk Engineer
Joost Leijen Photography, Design, Art Direction
Wim Wigt Producer
In history' we can point at a lot of small groups that in fact helped to write that history. Just a grab: The Original Dixieland Jazz Band. the New Orleans Rhythm Kings. Jelly Roll Morion's Red Hot Peppers, Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven, the Chicago Rhythm Kings, Joe Venuti's Blue Four, Hot Club de France. Nat King Cole Trio, the Lennie Tristano Quintet, the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, the Lighthouse All Stars, the Modern Jazz Quartet, the Oscar Peterson Trio. the Jazz Messengers, the New^York Art Quartet, the Art Ensemble of Chicago and I think it is time to add the George Adams/Don Pullen Quartet. The reason is a musical one: it is in this group that we find a great synthesis of blues, gospel music, bop. funk and free jazz. A synthesis brought to existence by four men: tenor saxophonist George Adams (Covington. Georgia. 29 April 1940). pianist Don Pullen (Roanoke, Virginia 25 December 1941), bassist Cameron Brown (Detroit, 21 December 1945) and drummer Dannie Richmond (New-York, 15 December 1935).
Three of these four men had the same employer: Charles Mingus. George Adams was with that great bassist from 1973 to 1976. Don Pullen from 1973 to 1975 and drummer Dannie Richmond was one of the musicians who was a member of the Mingus groups for a very long time: 1956-1967,1969-1970 and l973-l978.After Mingus died he was the musical director of the Mingus Dynasty (1979-1980). That the bassist did not work with Mingus is not a strange fact. being a bass player. But listen carefully to Brown's style and you will hear Mingus here too. Speaking about influences: George Adams was influenced by John Coltrane, Albert Ayler. Ben Webster, Charlie Parker. Coleman Hawkins. Stanley Turrentine and Paul Gonsalves;
Don Pullen was influenced by Art Tatum, Cecil Taylor and Muhal Richard Abrams: Cameron Brown had. except for the Mingus traces, influences by Paul Chambers. Jimmy Garrison and Gary Peacock and drummer Dannie Richmond had listened very intensively to the work of Max Roach and PhillyJoe Jones. But the four musicians have their own strong points too: George Adams is a powerful player with intense gospel roots and the capability to use the harmonic and linear freedom of the post-Coltrane saxophonists: Don Pullen is very exciting with his right hand clusters played very rapidly. It was the poet Leroi Jones who once described Pullen as a musician with exploding fingers. Bassist Cameron Brown is solid, flexible, has a full tone and is at ease in the avant garde. Drummer Dannie Richmond was a very special case, he could play in a conservative jazz group but lie was also at home in a free-jazz unit. an allround drummer with heavy emotions. But there is more. The musicians are composers as well. In this 1981 recording George Adams composed three of the six pieces. Don Pullen made two contributions, Dannie Richmond one. The quartet came to life in 1979 but already in 1975 and 1976 Adams. Pullen and Richmond had made records in Italy, one with bassist David Williams, one with bassist David Friesen. With Cameron Brown as bassist the quartet started a real career. Travelling all over the world and making records till in 1985. The quartet no longer really exists now since the 'Life Line' was broken when Dannie Richmond died on 16 March 1988 in New York. But the music of these four men is still there.
--- Wim van Eyle
What the press said
'In this 1980s mainstream-jazz the rhythm-duo Dannie Richmond and Cameron Brown is fitting very well and also the Charles Mingus-message is brought with more dignity and with a face of his own than is the case in Mingus Dynasty led by Richmond." (Jazz Nu)
'This quartet has made a decision to let everybody out of the chairs, Note. it is a determination. You'll get a shock anywhere you put the needle on the record. If you don't be happy of this the hope is out." (Dagens Nyheter)
"This Adams/Pullen Quartet is a showcase of what jazz can do in the area of melody and rhythm: blues, ballad and beat. not too modern, but in noway old-fashioned. Of course, not a Sun Ra or Art Ensemble, but they will stay." (HetVaderland)
"This is a varied recording and contains some exceptional music over its six tracks. The opening track 'The Great Escape, or Run John Henry Run' is a Pullen original taken way up tempo and with breath-taking work from the co-leaders: it is superb!" (Cadence)
"A recording that is a success. Not as avant garde-like as some other cooperation between Adams and Pullen, but rooted very well in blues and ballad. Wigt may be happy to have four top musicians like these in his stable." (Jazz Freak)
George Adams
Active Decades: '70s, '80s and '90s
Born: Apr 29, 1940 in Covington, GA
Died: Nov 14, 1992 in New York, NY
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Post-Bop, Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz
A passionate tenor and flute player who was not shy to break up chordal improvising with an unexpected scream or roar, George Adams was an original voice who (like his friend Don Pullen) crossed over several stylistic boundaries. He started on piano, but by the time he was in high school he was playing tenor in funk bands. In 1961, he toured with Sam Cooke, and in 1963 Adams moved to Ohio where he played with organ groups for the next few years. In 1968, he relocated to New York where he played with Roy Haynes, Gil Evans, and Art Blakey, among others. However, it was his association with Charles Mingus (1973-1976) that gave him his initial fame. After playing a bit with McCoy Tyner, Adams co-led a stimulating quartet with Don Pullen that made many records. Late in life, Adams (who enjoyed taking an occasional raspy blues vocal) teamed up with James Blood Ulmer in the group Phalanx, and occasionally played with Mingus Dynasty.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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