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Ode To Life | 
 enlarge | Artist: Don Pullen & The African-brazilian Connection
Label: Blue Note Records
Category: Music
List Price: $16.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 151161
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 077778923329
EAN: 0077778923329
ASIN: B000005HDX
Release Date: August 19, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | The Third House On The Right | | • | Paraty | | • | El Matador | | • | Ah George, We Hardly Knew Ya | | • | Aseeko! (Get Up And Dance!) | | • | Anastasia/Pyramid | | • | Variation On Ode To Life |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
The quartet co-led by pianist Don Pullen and saxophonist George Adams made some of the very best jazz albums of the '80s (though most of them were available in the U.S. only as imports), and Ode to Life, the second album by Pullen's African-Brazilian Connection, is dedicated to the late Adams. As a result, the album is elegiac and more subdued than Pullen's usual convulsions. It may not match Pullen's best work, but in its understated way, The African-Brazilian Connection reveals the pianist's gift for soulful melodies and romantic harmonies. And it's a wonderful showcase for Carlos Ward, whose work on alto sax and flute boasts a refined lyricism. --Geoffrey Himes
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| Customer Reviews:
Amazed! March 22, 2008
While this is not one of Don Pullen's best efforts, it is filled with some very good music. I especially love "El Matador". His physical dexterity along with his artistry is incredible. Check out Don and his band on "YouTube".
You'll be amazed.
Great album but not the best of Pullen April 24, 2005
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Don't get me wrong I love the album but it does get a bit sappy in places. What I like about the other album I have, 'kele mou bana' is the real exhuberance that the cross-section of be-bop, avante garde(hesitate to call it such) and afro/ latin grooves. In particular the last track gets a bit too close to elevator territory for my liking. Also, I'm not really into the sax player I'm afraid.
One of the pieces is a greatly moving homage to George Adams April 29, 1999
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This album includes an exceptionally beautiful composition, "Ah George, We Hardly Knew Ya", which is an homage to the late George Adams. In this piece, a gentle latin ballad, Carlos Ward and Don Pullen play with such depth of emotion that all the considerations of commercial success, entertainment or showmanship that usually plague musical performance seem suspended, leaving space for a vibrant communion between the leaving artists and the dead one, with such evidence that the listener also becomes a participant in that communion.
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